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Yes and no. There are always new things coming along, and there are always old things still being used and built on. Just as an example, here are the top 10 la
by jdale27 5y ago
Yes and no. There are always new things coming along, and there are always old things still being used and built on.
Just as an example, here are the top 10 languages on GitHub in 2020, according to https://octoverse.github.com/ https://octoverse.github.com/, along with the years they were introduced:
JavaScript 1995
Python 1991
Java 1995
TypeScript 2012
C# 2000
PHP 1995
C++ 1985
C 1972
Shell 1971
Ruby 1995
Only 2/10 were invented in this millennium, and both of those are at least to some degree offshoots of other languages (TypeScript <- JavaScript, C# <- Java / C family). Granted, Python today is not the Python of 1991, and similarly for all of those other languages. So obviously you do have to keep up with the changes to the language, the libraries, the programming environments, etc.