Show HN: Programming Languages Timeline

Interesting data, but not the most readable.<p>Could you try:<p>- increasing contrast of text (vs background), - making it horizontal (time is already there, no need to make the whole plot diagonal) - making different author of language different color or font size than language (and perhaps, bottom to language name).<p>I believe it would add to readability.

Would be nice if it the scroll directions were associated so you don&#x27;t have to manually scroll both ways to keep the text in view.

Btw - the data is from wikipedia - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_programming_languages-" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Timeline_of_programming_languag...</a> if this is incomplete, then feel free to add the missing ones to the list give me a pull-request for this file - <a href="https://github.com/eiriklv/eiriklv.github.io/blob/master/timeline/programming-languages/js/data.js" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;eiriklv&#x2F;eiriklv.github.io&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;tim...</a>

This is a nice timeline, but unfortunately the text is quite difficult to read due to poor color contrast. Any chance this can be improved?

This is one of those sites I wouldn&#x27;t mind the site hijacking my scroll. It would also be nice if you could show many any languages were created for a year in the year bar above, maybe on hover or as a badge.

That&#x27;s interesting, seems that the only year without a new (known&#x2F;significant) programming language from 1946 to now is 2013. I wonder why.

Heavily inspired by <a href="https://github.com/cheeaun/life" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;cheeaun&#x2F;life</a> :-)

leave the years timeline fixed at the top.

Nice timeline, I would rethink the colors however. Maybe change the text to white?

1972 was a crazy year.

In the timeline, I don&#x27;t see viml (Vim script).