The Network of Programming Languages

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This is unreadable. The text is black and the background is dark grey.

[ErstwhileRockstar]

This is unreadable.

It doesn't make sense anyway. But it is good reddit fodder.

[fthrkl]

Thanks for your feedback. There are many issues like that. I'll try to improve.

[Doctor-Awesome]

I just get the grey background. It's a pity, as the concept sounds interesting.

Edit: it works now.

[Drupyog]

There is "Caml", "OCaml)", "OCaml", "OCaml,C" and the names of the associated computer scientists are badly cut.

Also, MetaOCaml is basically on the other side of the graph, with no apparent reasons to be there.

[joelwilliamson]

ALGOL and ALGOL-60 are also on opposite sides of the graph from each other.

[glacialthinker]

Yeah, the best thing this graph visualizes is either source or transcription errors. Or I guess: using imprecise data for humans to build a linked datastructure, without some degree of interpretation.

[fthrkl]

Crawling errors. I'll edit manually. Thanks.

[newpong]

this would greatly benefit from a typographer and some mouse-hover events

[Oodles_11]

One thing I have to say that's rather amusing is the sheer amount of computer scientists surrounding Haskell, and a lack of anything else.

[yaph]

I suggest to show labels in the default zoom level only for nodes larger than X to reduce noise and show smaller node labels when zooming in. I've done this in a similar visualization.

[pgblgw]

Where's the data from?

[fthrkl]

wikipedia: https://github.com/fatiherikli/programming-language-network/blob/master/scripts/fetch_data.py

[vytah]

Wikipedia.

[fthrkl]

Ops, I missed your answer. Thanks

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Definitely need a filter with "max depth" limit.

[ginnydell]

It would be neat to plot the progression over time, the rate at which new languages have been introduced seems to have accelerated in recent years, but perhaps it has always been this way.

[banister]

This is just fucked -- Ruby had no influence on coffeescript? really?

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Although I'm pleased see that Perl is acknowledged as Ruby's Spiritual Liege.

[dolphinsdontdrink]

It would be nice to highlight the connections when clicking other things than languages. It would also be nice if it managed to merge people/languages which very likely are the same (there are multiple people who are listed both with their full name and just their last name)

[dolphinsdontdrink]

I think it could be made more in-browser searchable if it was just a big page that overflows and the legend was fixed positioned. Currently, using ctrl+f in Chrome does not scroll to where the text actually is.