Ilya Dudkin at Skywell Software has a story
Top 7 Dying Programming Languages to Avoid Studying in 2019 –2020.
Each language gets a paragraph's treatment as to why he thinks these languages are dead or dying. Those languages are:
Do you agree with his assessment? Are there any other language(s) you would add to the list?
(Score: 2) by turgid on Wednesday March 11 2020, @10:41PM (4 children)
I thought Ruby had taken over from Perl.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 12 2020, @01:14AM
No, Ruby is a whole new level of fragility.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by arslan on Thursday March 12 2020, @01:54AM (1 child)
Nah, Ruby is already dead and buried.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Thursday March 12 2020, @09:14AM
Ruby got popular with rails, rails lost a bit of focus by concentrating on itself instead of catering to the devs/enterprise needs (which are stability and API stability and API stability and stability) and node js ate its lunch. Pity because as a language ruby is nice.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 12 2020, @05:41AM
Ruby is big in Japan. Everywhere else, not so much.