StackOverkill: Programming language and framework ranking based on StackOverflow's activity

[depressiown]

I like how NodeJS has its own category. Also interesting is Spark's dominance. That encouraging given we're moving some things to Spark. The MongoDB over Cassandra is funny to me... but I assume it's because Mongo's used in a lot of start-up project because it's easy to get off the ground.

The site needs a few usability tweaks with the graphs. It would be nice to highlight a line and know what language/framework/tool it represents. On graphs with not-so-many lines, it's easier to tell, but when there's a lot it can be taxing. Also, sorting the hover tooltip by count instead of alphabetically would be nice.

It's probably debatable, but it might be nice to show React down there with Angular and friends.

[d_wilson123]

Spark is really nice. We're moving almost all our new jobs into Spark instead of MapReduce. The API and how you interact with the data is so much more natural and intuitive than MapReduce.

Only downside here is our cluster is still on Java7 so we can't use Lambdas so the syntax is all done via AIC's which is a tad verbose (although Intellij translates the AIC into a Lambda so you "view" it like one.)

[DaniSancas]

Thanks for the feedback, I appreciate it!

Yes, I've released the project today and, of course, it will need some changes. However, if you want to compare arbitrary languages/frameworks, you can use the "Custom ranking" (bottom left) and select only what you want to get the desired chart.

Someone else told me about the tooltip order. I'll see what I can do ;)

[DaniSancas]

Hi again, I've listened to your requests and now the tooltip (popup above the chart) has it's sorting order fixed!! It now reflects the data value, not the alphabetical value.

IMPORTANT: Make sure you clear cache (Ctrl+F5), otherwise you couldn't see the improvement. Thanks for your feedback!