Computer Science is increasing in popularity in universities: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/24/technology/computer-science-courses-college.html
At least in the UK, popularity plummeted for years after the dot com bubble. I wonder if we're at all time highs or not.
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I'm playing with DOT output for debugging syntax trees from difftastic. Here's an F# snippet, the Debug representation, and the DOT rendered as an image.
I'm pleased with the information density on the graphic, but we'll see how often I end up using it.
It's so strange that we talk about languages being slow, and have done for years. Computer performance has increased so much in this time.
https://hbfs.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/is-python-slow/ (shared on HN in 2009) discusses Python being slow. My underpowered Thinkpad has 20x the single-threaded performance! https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/73vs3766/AMD-Athlon-64-4000+-vs-AMD-Ryzen-5-PRO-4650U
Maybe *relative* performance of languages matters more?
It's weird that GitHub shows time since the last commit, but not time since the first commit. It's a nice way of seeing how mature a project is.