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Top 7 Dying Programming Languages to Avoid Studying in 2019 –2020

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

DannyB wrote in with a submission which became:

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: 3, Interesting) by RamiK on Wednesday March 11 2020, @11:10PM (2 children)

    by RamiK (1813) on Wednesday March 11 2020, @11:10PM (#969917)

    https://factorcode.org/ [factorcode.org]

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  • (Score: 2) by HiThere on Thursday March 12 2020, @05:40PM (1 child)

    by HiThere (866) Subscriber Badge on Thursday March 12 2020, @05:40PM (#970309) Journal

    The website doesn't seem well-maintained. Several of the examples yield "502: Bad Gateway".

    OTOH, the development release has a recent date.

    I was not able to quickly determine what representation they use for characters. They've got something called concurrency, but I'm not sure whether that is actual multi-processor execution or merely threading within the same process.
    In short, the documentation needs a lot of work to interest me.

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    • (Score: 3, Interesting) by RamiK on Friday March 13 2020, @12:18AM

      by RamiK (1813) on Friday March 13 2020, @12:18AM (#970475)

      The website doesn't seem well-maintained. Several of the examples yield "502: Bad Gateway".

      OTOH, the development release has a recent date.

      Slava Pestov stopped actively developing it around 2010 when he started plumbing for Google. Currently I believe he's working for Apple developing Swift? Regardless, there's a few guys hacking on it here and there but nothing major. Still, should be preferable to Forth.

      I was not able to quickly determine what representation they use for characters.

      https://factorcode.org/littledan/dls.pdf [factorcode.org]

      https://andreaferretti.github.io/factor-tutorial/ [github.io]

      They've got something called concurrency, but I'm not sure whether that is actual multi-processor execution or merely threading within the same process.

      coop coroutines implemented as a single threaded vm.

      In short, the documentation needs a lot of work to interest me.

      Topic of the discussion was Top 7 Dying Programming Languages to Avoid Studying in 2019 –2020 and you brought up Forth so I just couldn't help trying to outdo you with a more modern concatenative language that is similarly pinning for the fjords :D

      Regardless, linear memory models are making a comeback with WebASM and I'm already seeing infant languages trying to pick up where Forth and Factor left off ( https://github.com/renatoathaydes/wasmin [github.com] https://github.com/obfusk/koneko [github.com] ) so there's still some hope.

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