Programming language reviews newsletter?
I was thinking about starting a newsletter where I review programming languages, and summarize various information to reduce the 'time to decision' on a programming language for your next project.
So, I'm trying to gauge interest about whether or not people even care.
I know it might be a bit faux pas to post here instead of in Ideas and Validation, but the market segment fits better in this group, so I'm sorry about that.
This one is tough for two reasons:
You'll very quickly run out of popular and even semi-popular languages to review
It takes a lot of work before you're in a place where you can competently review one. Having learned a dozen or so languages to a productive level over the last decade, I'd still feel hesitant about this topic. There are really only half of those I'd feel confident in reviewing and that's not enough for a newsletter!
How about reviewing libraries you can pick up quickly?
I think you made some good points. Honestly, I find libraries to be a snooze fest. I love learning new programming languages which is why I thought of this idea. Maybe I'll just write some blog posts instead. :P
I would probably not use this newsletter, even if I had the problem.
However, much more interesting than the language would be the tech stack for me. Stuff like #builtwith for Firebase, Azure, AWS.
Something really cool could be a site for indie hackers to add their projects and specify their tech stack & languages.
Adding this info to the actual projects could be preferred unless you have a usp.
The usp could be fields for difficulties + reasoning for the choice.
Linking directly to the indie hackers project would be nice to get even more info.
No clue how to monetize that though. Perhaps a "comparison" to get an aggregated comparison vs looking at lots of them one by one?
Sounds like an interesting idea.
On the upside people are definitely interested in rising technologies and programming stacks.
The downside I can think of is that it may be hard to keep regular readers engaged if you keep the newsletter contained to reviewing programming languages since most software engineers don't learn a new programming language or stack every month(or even every year)
An just as a side idea - You can have a section for each programming language you review which gives example apps that were built using that language(I always love seeing these examples!)
Funny you would say that, your side idea crossed my mind earlier today! :)
It could absolutely be a fun section for your newsletter(and give some great insights without explaining ins and outs of a language). Good luck!