Ask HN: Which programming language communities seem most excited these days?
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I don't have specific evidence but just from general use of the internet, it seems that Rust/Go are pretty hyped
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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.
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.
Modern fortran seem fine (in the sense that many languages are “fine”) but isn’t just about all production fortran legacy.
- 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!