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>how large a collection of programming language ecosystems does the world want or need? There are many problem domains that can be solved by computers, and hav
by mywittyname 5y ago
>how large a collection of programming language ecosystems does the world want or need?
There are many problem domains that can be solved by computers, and having a language specific or well suited to that niche can be a productivity boon.
As long as humans continue to discover new problem domains in computing, they will continue to develop new programming languages to work in them more efficiently (and existing languages will expand to try and fill that niche).
- streamofdigits 5y agoyes, I am not arguing for a single language. But many of the domains you mention are actually intrinsically similar once you map them to the underlying information flows. This explains for example the extreme ubiquity and longevity of things like relational databases and SQL. There are several genuine and orthogonal domain "dimensions", e.g real time systems or parallel processing etc, but I would say that is a handful, not the multiple dozens even hundreds of idioms we use to program digital devices...