ACCU World of Code

Category: programming language

  • Long term growth of programming language use

    The names of files containing source code often include a suffix denoting the programming language used, e.g., .c for C source code. These suffixes provide a cheap and cheerful method for estimating programming language use within a file system directory. This method has its flaws, with two main factors introducing uncertainty into the results: The…

  • Discussing new language features is more fun than measuring feature usage in code

    How often are the features supported by a programming language used by developers in the code that they write? This fundamental question is rarely asked, let alone answered (my contribution). Existing code is what developers spend their time reading, compilers translating to machine code, and LLMs use as training data. Frequently used language features are…

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