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What are the chances of Google's Go becoming a mainstream language? [closed]
Who here is learning Go? Are other companies looking at using it? Is it likely to become widely used?
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Why isn't the Stab language more widely used? [closed]
I am wondering if there are technical reasons that make Stab an unsuitable alternative to Java.
Stab borrows heavily from C#, bringing many C# features to the JVM:
Less verbosity
type inference ...
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Best Site/Service For a Programming Blog [closed]
I am thinking of starting a programming blog to cover my progress and ideas in open source and employed projects. I am wondering if anyone has an opinion as to which of these sites/tools lend ...
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What do neglected O'Reilly book topics tell us about that topic?
Does anybody know how O'Reilly chooses topics to publish?
For some reason, I don't see how it can be based on demand.
The reason, I ask, is because they haven't published a Delphi book in almost 12 ...
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Why the sudden rise in popularity of Lua? [closed]
Does anyone know why the Lua progamming language has seen such a rise in popularity recently? I am going by the TIOBE ratings. http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/paperinfo/tpci/Lua.html I've used Lua in ...
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Researching the growth of functional languages
In recent years it seems that functional programming languages have had a real popularity increase. Languages like Erlang, Haskell, Scala, F# and Clojure seem to be pretty well known and many popular ...
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How to choose a language, when taking in account the community it includes?
I was reading the following article: Great Hackers
The following part grabbed my attention:
"When you choose a language, you're also choosing a community. The programmers you'll be able to hire ...
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Is Java Plug-in still relevant?
When I challenged Chrome development team about their decision to block every version of the Java Plug-in by default (http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=84001). They answered that Java ...
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How to popularize Nemerle (or another programming language)? [closed]
Any .NET developer who is interested in different programming languages knows that F# is the most popular functional language for the .NET platform nowadays. The only fact describing the popularity of ...
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Which source is quoteable for the popularity of programming languages?
I'm writing a paper right now, and I need a quotable source for the popularity of programming languages.
One source I know is the TIOBE index, however, there are several others if you search google, ...
