Programming language subreddits and their choice of words

An interesting indicator from the &quot;mentions&quot; graph: how compatible or co-used two technologies are in practice.<p>For example: C++ programmers apparently don&#x27;t mention SQL at all, while it&#x27;s very popular with PHP (which doesn&#x27;t have a built-in ORM). There is also no overlap between C++ and JavaScript programmers.<p>Rust is obviously very influenced by C++ and Haskell, but the C++ community doesn&#x27;t even know about its existence. Somewhat naturally, the Matlab and PHP communities really don&#x27;t have much in common.

&quot;But what is up with the Visual Basic community? They are neither angry nor happy. They just ... are? :)&quot;<p>This is answered by the mentions relative to TIOBE graph. They use VB, but they are careful not to talk about it.

I wonder why Perl was excluded. A quick search reveals that &#x2F;r&#x2F;perl has more subscribers than lua, matlab, objectivec, scala, sql, and visualbasic.

I know PHP-bashing isn&#x27;t particularly creative nor nice, but I wasn&#x27;t surprised when I saw the word-analysis at the end there :)<p>That said, I don&#x27;t think the findings for C was shocking either.<p>You&#x27;re not going to be writing kernel-modules in Clojure. It&#x27;s going to be some sort of C. And the chances of it involving hardware (performant code or not) is significantly higher than other non-systems languages.

This is awesome. It almost paints a picture from PHP =&gt; Python =&gt; cpp &amp; Java.<p>Considering that would be considered a growth path of a developing programmer, I find that fascinating.<p>PS: Go will always have problems with stuff like this. They should have just named the language string or var or something equal toxic to machine collection.

It&#x27;s great to look at correlations between Rust, C++, and Haskell. Rust programmers are very interested in Haskell, and Haskell programmers Rust; which indicates that Rust&#x27;s design has a lot of influence from Haskell. C++ programmers are talking about Rust more than anything else; which shows that they are likely interested in moving to Rust.<p>This is very exciting to me, because I believe Rust is going to be a great replacement for C&#x2F;C++, and if anyone understands how to create quality programming languages, Haskell programmers do.<p>TL;DR Rust is going to be the new C++, and the new Lisp. These are exciting times.

I feel like Haskell gets name dropped a lot more - when you mention something from a C-language you can have a reasonable expectation the other person knows what that thing is.

I agree with the author that the top graph may not be hiding any important insights, but the interactive version (linked from the image) is sexy as all get-out.

I wish the colors indicated not absolute comparative volume (more X talk happens on Y forum, than visa versa, so it&#x27;s colored Y) but instead comparative relative volumes<p><pre><code> Forum X spends a great percentage of their time talking about Y than visa versa so it&#x27;s colored X </code></pre> Basically, who obsesses over who more.

That&#x27;s really clever. I had a good laugh at some of the results. Well done.

There&#x27;s a language that everybody is talking about; yet nobody uses it.<p>Kind of a spinoff of Stroustrup&#x27;s, &quot;there are languages everybody complains about, and languages nobody uses&quot;.

This is really cool. I wonder how the &quot;buzzfactor&quot; of Haskell would measure up against Idris.

looks like users of PHP are most offensive when given to choice of words to hate the language and users of mathematica are least offensive ! Funny but not unexpected<p>clojure users seem very happy with what they use!<p>On the mutual mentions java users have near zero mention of haskell?

My kingdom for a sarcasm detection algorithm!

nice job. as a user of PHP. no comments. :)