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DannyB [soylentnews.org] writes:

Top 7 Dying Programming Languages to Avoid Studying in 2019 –2020 [skywell.software]

Is Visual Basic Dead?

with the rise of smartphones and tablets, it is becoming extinct. In the end, it lost the competition with C#, which is also built on the .NET framework. Also, according to a Stack Overflow survey, Visual Basic is the most dreaded programing language.

Is Objective-C Dead?

currently in demand for supporting older projects, but with the rise of Swift, we have to wonder for how long. Both iOS and MacOS still use C, Objective-C, and C++

Is Perl Dead?

Early on it was viewed as very useful and pragmatic, but it came with a lot of caveats. The creators of Perl started to pile on features, but they did not plan out how all of them will be synced. The developer community noticed this problem and created Perl6, but it was not enough

Is Cobol a Dead Language Now?

companies are rapidly updating their legacy systems and without them, Cobol does not have much to offer.

Is CoffeeScript Dead?

originally designed to take a program’s source code, which was in CoffeeScript and create the same thing, but in JavaScript. However, as time went on, the advantages that were offered by CoffeeScript became integrated into JavaScript

Is Scala Dying?

Scala was viewed as the next big thing in programming, but it gradually started losing popularity and tanked out in 2016 with less 1% of developers using it. It is a very difficult language to learn since it is based on mathematical type theory and it did not do a good job of ensuring compatibility either with earlier versions of Scala or Java.

Why is Lisp Dying?

because of its fragmented nature and its domain-specific solution style. Fewer programmers were using the same version until the point when there was no point in using it altogether.

What do you think? What do you use? With everything in life: change is the only const.

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