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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 HiThere on Thursday March 12 2020, @05:51PM
With C++ pick WxWidgets or Qt. Qt has better appearance in my opinion, but WxWidgets is easier to use. In C I'd grit my teeth and pick gtk. From Go gtk is the only reasonable choice.
And note that it depends a LOT on what you're doing. Some things are easy in one toolkit and hard in another, like selecting a line of text from a displayed block of text (none of them make that easy, unless you identify a line as "something that ends with a carriage return" rather than "the stuff displayed on one line of this variably sized text control". Gtk uses markers to say when you're highlighting a word, WxWidgets allows you to use HTML markup, and Qt assumes you're going to be using HTML markup.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.