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Not going to start a flame war. Everyone has their opinions, However there are languages that come and go, and then are swift to become popular, but then are l

Not going to start a flame war. Everyone has their opinions, However there are languages that come and go, and then are swift to become popular, but then are left to rust, because people stopped having smalltalk about them.

oconnor663 10y ago
> languageS that Come and go, And then are swift to become popuLar, but then Are > languageS Come And popuLar Are > S C A L A Did I do that right?
- iamNumber4 10y ago
  I think you hit that Node, with a ruby of a pun, and are on the right railroad tracks my friend.
  - hackbinary 10y ago
    Whitespace? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_(programming_language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_(programming_langua...
  - vram22 10y ago
    Yes, he's certainly Going Forth.
senorjazz 10y ago
;)
turbohedgehog 10y ago
That's a brainfuck
oblio 10y ago
Despite the puns, as long as people start building production systems with those languages, they're going to stick around. And several of those languages are probably used by 10x or more people than D is. Luckily, there are so many things to build and so many programmers out there that almost any languages gets a spot under the sun these days. When was the last time a programming language died out? My guess the last one was a language tied to its hardware...
- milesrout 10y ago
  Coffeescript is essentially dead, many production web sites were written in it.
  - jononor 10y ago
    For what definition of dead? Sure, not so many use it for new projects, but it is still being maintained. There is an upcoming major release which will output ES2015. I've got some tens of libraries/apps written in CS, no plans to migrate them. Works as well today as it did 3 years ago.
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    - i336_ 10y ago
      > For what definition of dead? It's at 71.0% (5th from top) on the Dreaded tab here: http://stackoverflow.com/insights/survey/2016#technology-most-loved-dreaded-and-wanted http://stackoverflow.com/insights/survey/2016#technology-mos... > I've got some tens of libraries/apps written in CS, no plans to migrate them. Works as well today as it did 3 years ago. You might have a different view to the above then. Sounds like you're using it for the kinds of things it's good for, perhaps. (Languages can fall into vogue and (infuriatingly) go viral for all the wrong reasons... with everyone fighting it and not understanding why)
      - jononor 9y ago
        Not sure I'm using it for anything special... But one reason I chose it is my preference for minimal syntax, which is not a fashion thing and has not changed since I did Python 8 years ago. It also fixes some bugs in JS, like defaulting to globals on omitted `var` or implicit conversions on `!=`. I do wish to have gradual static typechecking available though. This may unfortunately force me over to TypeScript or ES2015+Flow.
      - netzone 9y ago
        I think it says a lot that the only top 5 in the "Loved" tab that's also present on the whole "Wanted" tab is Swift. Not that I use Swift, but it's the one with a mainstream use case today pretty much. It will be interesting to see how it looks in 5 years.
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RantyDave 10y ago
Go is not going anywhere.
- human_error 10y ago
  Unfortune, isn't it? We have D, Swift, Rust, Kotlin. Go looks very sad (and borderline ridiculous) compared to these.
  - rufugee 10y ago
    Practically? How so?
  - i336_ 10y ago
    In trying to group those together, the best my brain has been able to come up with is a raspberry-flavored pretzel. I'm... slightly confused. :/
human_error 10y ago
I agree except the swift part (I don't even code in Swift). It's impossible for it to die because of iOS unless Apple kills it for something else.

oconnor663 10y ago

> languageS that Come and go, And then are swift to become popuLar, but then Are > languageS Come And popuLar Are > S C A L A Did I do that right?

iamNumber4 10y ago
I think you hit that Node, with a ruby of a pun, and are on the right railroad tracks my friend.
- hackbinary 10y ago
  Whitespace? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_(programming_language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_(programming_langua...
- vram22 10y ago
  Yes, he's certainly Going Forth.

senorjazz 10y ago

;)

turbohedgehog 10y ago

That's a brainfuck

oblio 10y ago

Despite the puns, as long as people start building production systems with those languages, they're going to stick around. And several of those languages are probably used by 10x or more people than D is. Luckily, there are so many things to build and so many programmers out there that almost any languages gets a spot under the sun these days. When was the last time a programming language died out? My guess the last one was a language tied to its hardware...

milesrout 10y ago
Coffeescript is essentially dead, many production web sites were written in it.
- jononor 10y ago
  For what definition of dead? Sure, not so many use it for new projects, but it is still being maintained. There is an upcoming major release which will output ES2015. I've got some tens of libraries/apps written in CS, no plans to migrate them. Works as well today as it did 3 years ago.
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  - i336_ 10y ago
    > For what definition of dead? It's at 71.0% (5th from top) on the Dreaded tab here: http://stackoverflow.com/insights/survey/2016#technology-most-loved-dreaded-and-wanted http://stackoverflow.com/insights/survey/2016#technology-mos... > I've got some tens of libraries/apps written in CS, no plans to migrate them. Works as well today as it did 3 years ago. You might have a different view to the above then. Sounds like you're using it for the kinds of things it's good for, perhaps. (Languages can fall into vogue and (infuriatingly) go viral for all the wrong reasons... with everyone fighting it and not understanding why)
    - jononor 9y ago
      Not sure I'm using it for anything special... But one reason I chose it is my preference for minimal syntax, which is not a fashion thing and has not changed since I did Python 8 years ago. It also fixes some bugs in JS, like defaulting to globals on omitted `var` or implicit conversions on `!=`. I do wish to have gradual static typechecking available though. This may unfortunately force me over to TypeScript or ES2015+Flow.
    - netzone 9y ago
      I think it says a lot that the only top 5 in the "Loved" tab that's also present on the whole "Wanted" tab is Swift. Not that I use Swift, but it's the one with a mainstream use case today pretty much. It will be interesting to see how it looks in 5 years.

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RantyDave 10y ago

Go is not going anywhere.

human_error 10y ago
Unfortune, isn't it? We have D, Swift, Rust, Kotlin. Go looks very sad (and borderline ridiculous) compared to these.
- rufugee 10y ago
  Practically? How so?
- i336_ 10y ago
  In trying to group those together, the best my brain has been able to come up with is a raspberry-flavored pretzel. I'm... slightly confused. :/

human_error 10y ago

I agree except the swift part (I don't even code in Swift). It's impossible for it to die because of iOS unless Apple kills it for something else.