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No ocaml. Oh well

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Uh, I forgot to include OCaml and Julia. Sorry, I have no excuse.

Here's how they stack up (just added both of them to the list of languages and reran it):

By number of stories: 13. Julia (35 stories), 18. OCaml (13 stories)

By number of comments: 9. Julia (498 comments), 19. OCaml (82 comments)

By points: 9. Julia (1542 points), 15. OCaml (503 points)

I link to the Python script I used to generate this, so if you want to experiment with different date range or other languages/search terms, feel free to explore! (I do think Algolia API has some limits on the number of results tho so might not work out of the box for much longer time periods)

> 15. OCaml (503 points)

I expected OCaml to rank much higher as it's often in the top stories. I must be biased.

I think the fact that it's lower on the number of posts indicates that there's less content about it, but people are more engaged (and posts more popular) when there is a story involving it.

Also, as other commenters noted, this doesn't catch all stories (just the ones with a specific phrase) to minimize false positives. Although for OCaml, the false positives would be pretty rare.

Can you also check APL?

Perl is 8 stories. I haven't looked at the other metrics.

Would you mind updating the article with these two?

I also ran your script with Nim (and Julia). For Nim I got:

    18. Nim (17 stories)
    15. Nim (168 comments)
    14. Nim (629 points)

Well cheer up, as your favorite is getting much better treatment than V on HN. As if "there can only be one", just mentioning or posting links on the language can trigger detractors and competitors going into a psycho scramble of trolling, downvoting, flagging, or slander.

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