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posted by martyb on Wednesday March 11 2020, @10:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the what-do-YOU-think dept.

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:

  • Visual Basic
  • Objective-C
  • Perl
  • COBOL
  • CoffeeScript
  • Scala
  • Lisp

Do you agree with his assessment? Are there any other language(s) you would add to the list?


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  • (Score: 2) by turgid on Wednesday March 11 2020, @10:41PM (4 children)

    by turgid (4318) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday March 11 2020, @10:41PM (#969901) Journal

    I thought Ruby had taken over from Perl.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 12 2020, @01:14AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 12 2020, @01:14AM (#969973)

    No, Ruby is a whole new level of fragility.

  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by arslan on Thursday March 12 2020, @01:54AM (1 child)

    by arslan (3462) on Thursday March 12 2020, @01:54AM (#970001)

    Nah, Ruby is already dead and buried.

    • (Score: 2) by Bot on Thursday March 12 2020, @09:14AM

      by Bot (3902) on Thursday March 12 2020, @09:14AM (#970164) Journal

      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

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 12 2020, @05:41AM (#970116)

    Ruby is big in Japan. Everywhere else, not so much.