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Darwinism in Programming Language Proliferation

Andrew (he/him) on November 01, 2019

A really interesting article was just published in Computing and Software Science titled "The Next 7000 Programming Languages" (a play on Peter J. ...
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The tl;dr of the article is that:

  • C is still going strong in 2019 even though no sane person would have guessed so in about 1990
  • nobody knows how to do multithreaded / parallel programming
  • a "general purpose" language which performs well across all domains seems very unlikely, if not impossible