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An interesting indicator from the "mentions" graph: how compatible or co-used two technologies are in practice.

For example: C++ programmers apparently don't mention SQL at all, while it's very popular with PHP (which doesn't have a built-in ORM). There is also no overlap between C++ and JavaScript programmers.

Rust is obviously very influenced by C++ and Haskell, but the C++ community doesn't even know about its existence. Somewhat naturally, the Matlab and PHP communities really don't have much in common.




None of these languages have a built in ORM.


Does any language have a built in ORM? I was thinking maybe Ruby, but even that is a gem.


An interesting question, I did some googling and didn't find anything.

Not that surprising I think since an ORM is probably better in a library since that allows more flexibility across systems.



Would Entity Framework qualify as a "built-in" ORM for .net languages?

edit I guess not, since it's a nuget package now. Maybe LINQ to SQL could have been considered a built-in ORM?


> Maybe LINQ to SQL could have been considered a built-in ORM?

It might be more accurate to say LINQ is built into the languages, but LINQ to SQL is a .NET platform feature, not a language feature. (Of course, the languages are so tied to the Microsoft distribution and the .NET platform that distinctions between language features, language standard library features, and platform features are, for .NET languages, somewhat academic in practice [inasmuch as there is a practical difference that is likely to matter, "does it work on Mono" is probably more important than strict language/library/platform distinctions].)


a couple of client+server web languages, like opa and ur/web.


Anyone know what the unlabelled languages are in that graph?

[Edit: Sorry, I was dragged away to a meeting before I could finish.]

Specifically, what is the blue language between C# and Haskell? It has a strangely strong link to Rust and Python.


Pretty sure it's Go. The order around the circle seems to match the chart right under it.


Go, Objective-C, Swift, and Visual Basic.




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