Ask HN: Which programming language communities seem most excited these days?

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by themodelplumber • 5 years ago

8 3 5 years ago

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For example:

- Communities of people excited about the language itself

- Communities of people excited about what they are building with all those included batteries

- Communities of people excited about the growth of the audience for the language

Any links to the relevant community gathering places would be appreciated, since I know things are kind of spread out on different platforms these days. Thanks!

Bostonian• 5 years ago

I cannot compare excitement across programming language communities, but I can say that there has been a lot of progress in the Fortran community, centered around the site https://fortran-lang.org/ and forum https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/ and surveyed in a preprint https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.07382. A package manager, standard library, and a compiler with a REPL (LFortran) are being developed, and an annual conference has been held twice https://tcevents.chem.uzh.ch/event/14/. The Fortran standard has coarrays for parallelism, which several compilers have implemented.

A few years ago the main Fortran forum was comp.lang.fortran of Usenet, and although people did release tools and code, their efforts were scattered.

the_only_law• 5 years ago

Modern fortran seem fine (in the sense that many languages are “fine”) but isn’t just about all production fortran legacy.

s0rr0wskill• 5 years ago

I don't have specific evidence but just from general use of the internet, it seems that Rust/Go are pretty hyped

Ask HN: Which programming language communities seem most excited these days?

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