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"bussiness" languages will never change. It will be Cobol, Java, C#, Go, and then something like that in the future. The truth is, theres not enough smart peop
by oscargrouch 10y ago
"bussiness" languages will never change. It will be Cobol, Java, C#, Go, and then something like that in the future.
The truth is, theres not enough smart people to do things in the hundreds or thousands in a more sophisticated language.
And also speaking of smartness, sometimes, using simple tools, can help you focus on algorithms. Linus and crew coded the whole Linux in C, a language with very few resources, and considered pretty ugly by today's standard.
So i can see the beauty of that, even when you are able to use any sort of more sophisticated language, sometimes chosing something that can be shared with more people can pay off, instead of a more "elitist" language, with a higher barrier of entry. And also lets not forget, that theres always some economics at play. Where companies not focused in IT will choose tech that can scale by the number of employees, do its job and be cheap as possible.
I think there will be no antidote for that. It will always be some reincarnation of Java.