Ask HN: Visualizations of an Overview of Programming Languages

2 points

5 years ago

Having consulted search engines to death, I turn to the HN Community for some good visualizations that give an overview of the programming languages out there and include a lot more than just the mainstream languages. I'm struggling to find good results, because most searches are drowned in tutorials of "How to visualize data in $PL" or visualizations that cover a very small set of languages [0]. I found a visualization that shows the influence of programming languages on one another [1]. Something that includes such an insane amount of PLs, but for the visualizations described below, would be perfect.

I'm specifically looking for two kinds of visualizations:

1. A visualization that puts PLs into application domains: Something like a Venn diagram of the domains covered in [2] would be great.

2. A visualization that shows a timeline of programming languages and how they branch off from another: Something like [0], but with more PLs. Perhaps with the data of [3], but visualized. I know of a visualization that does this for Linux distros [4].

[0] https://www.mindmeister.com/104015524/programming-languages

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4581948

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming_domain

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_programming_languages

[4] http://futurist.se/gldt/

Any other visualizations about programming languages that you deem beautiful would be greatly appreciated as well. Some visualizations I found along the way:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17470161

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8544882

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9914924

https://github.com/stereobooster/programming-languages-genealogical-tree (See also the "Similar projects" section. I shared this one with HN earlier today, since it was noticeably absent.)

https://hopl.info/taxandgenie.html (This one is a bit dated, unfortunately. I also shared it on HN.)

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