I don't know about scheme being racket; both chicken and gambit seem to have reasonably active communities.
I was also surprised at the 16k hits for pony, which has essentially no ecosystem yet. but actually doing the google search it seems like there's tons of noise in there. martin On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 9:24 AM, Vincent St-Amour < stamo...@eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote: > If we add up the "Racket" and "Scheme" numbers (the latter being, I > suspect, mostly Racket), the total is pretty close to Ruby. I find that > amusing. :) > > Actually, I'm curious what the numbers look like if you count "PLT > Scheme" towards Racket. > > Vincent > > > > On Wed, 24 Feb 2016 11:06:51 -0600, > Brian Adkins wrote: > > > > I began compiling very crude statistics on programming language > popularity back in 2009, and just kept doing it periodically. Initially I > did it manually, but I finally got smart and wrote the following Racket > program to scrape the results automatically: > > > > https://gist.github.com/lojic/83fff86aeea6af1c31ac > > > > The numbers should clearly be taken lightly, but there is *some* > information to be had. Here is the latest post: > > > > > http://blog.lojic.com/2016/02/24/programming-language-popularity-part-ten/ > > > > I am fortunate in being able to choose whatever tool I feel is best, so > popularity isn't that important to me. Having a critical mass of libraries > is, but that's another matter. > > > > After a decade of C/C++, followed by a decade of Java, I came across > Ruby, and it has been my primary development language for the last decade. > Ruby was such an improvement over Java that it finally dawned on me to make > a purposeful search to see if I might get an improvement over Ruby that it > was over Java. > > > > Thus began a nine year search through Common Lisp, Haskell, Clojure, > Standard ML, OCaml, Julia, Pony (barely), etc., and Racket has emerged as > the clear winner for me personally. I'm already as productive in Racket as > I am in Ruby for a number of things, but I do have a fair amount of work to > do before I'm as productive in web development as I am with Rails. I'm > hoping that 2016 will be the year of preparation to allow a complete switch. > > > > Brian > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Racket Users" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Racket Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
