When I first looked at worldwide google trends for Haskell I was worried because it looked like there was a general downward trend over time…now its clear that google trends shows a declining number of searches for almost all languages. I’m surprised by this, since I think of programming as a sector which has been engaging an increasing proportion of the population, so I would have thought there would be more upward than downward trends, in programming language related searches.
Yeah, it might just be because social media and other stuff has gained a lot more market share since 2004 (remember, Facebook started in 2004-ish). So these results should be normalized somehow to make any sense.
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I thought it was interesting how clearly an increase for Kotlin seems to coincide with a decline for Scala. Scala shows a vertical drop just before Kotlin shows a vertical burst and then the two head in opposite directions.
I don’t know that Kotlin will really find an audience after Scala 3 and newer Java releases. It feels to me as if it’s trying to take Scala’s place as “better Java”. Scala has started losing that audience (with the more type astronaut-y machinery getting more play in Scala land) but Scala 3 reduces a lot of the syntactic and conceptual overhead of Scala 2 which might once have made Kotlin an attractive option, while Java is picking up most of the functional goodness that Kotlin offers.
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