Hacker News with Generative AI: Popularity

Kotlin, Swift, and Ruby losing popularity (infoworld.com)
The Kotlin, Swift, and Ruby languages have slipped from their top 20 positions in the Tiobe index of programming language popularity.

Programming Languages, Popularity, Trends

45 points by GTP 12 days ago | 79 comments

Why Gnome 2 Continues to Win the Desktop Popularity Contest (2019) (fossforce.com)
Eight years after the Gnome 2 desktop was replaced by Gnome 3, the older desktop environment remains one of the most used interfaces on desktop Linux.

Desktop Environments, Linux, User Interface, Popularity

10 points by bilegeek 87 days ago | 6 comments

Reddit overtakes X in popularity of social media platforms in UK (theguardian.com)
Reddit, the American online discussion platform, has overtaken X to become the fifth most popular social media platform in the UK, according to the communications watchdog.

Social Media, Reddit, UK, Popularity

6 points by nickcotter 149 days ago | 4 comments

Oh, WoW (theverge.com)
World of Warcraft, or WoW, is like the Red Hot Chili Peppers of the massively multiplayer online roleplaying genre: not only is it still going strong but it’s also somehow even bigger than you thought.

Gaming, Culture, Popularity

12 points by drdee 189 days ago | 0 comments

Rust Resumes Rise in Popularity (infoworld.com)
Rust, the fast and memory-safe programming language born out of Mozilla, has resumed its rise up the monthly Tiobe index of programming language popularity, although it still has not cracked the index’s top 10.

Programming Languages, Rust, Popularity, Software Development

14 points by mirzap 200 days ago | 2 comments

Rust went from a side project to the most-loved language (2023) (technologyreview.com)

Programming Languages, Rust, Software Development, Popularity

35 points by shoggouth 267 days ago | 15 comments

The music industry is engineering artist popularity (theguardian.com)

Music Industry, Popularity, Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence

19 points by jakub_g 270 days ago | 11 comments

Discussion on why SQLite is gaining popularity [audio] (syntax.fm)

Databases, Popularity, Software, Audio

168 points by thunderbong 318 days ago | 175 comments

NPM package is-even has over 140k weekly downloads (npmjs.com)

NPM, JavaScript, Software, Popularity

47 points by r_singh 348 days ago | 74 comments