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Define “doom” or “death”. Cobol still runs, FORTRAN still runs, not the coolest in the TIOBE index but in the tail. A mammalian body doesn’t die all at once, ei
by quantified 5y ago
Define “doom” or “death”. Cobol still runs, FORTRAN still runs, not the coolest in the TIOBE index but in the tail. A mammalian body doesn’t die all at once, either, but past some threshold of vitality does definitively die and remains dead. Really unclear whether these languages will be dead until the last compiler stops compiling. So the discussion needs a definition for the threshold the language may reach.
- tehjoker 5y agoI think "dead" is pretty clear. The work is not used anymore at all, or only for hobbyist projects. I think "dethroned" or "unpopular" would be more correct presuming that C++ would lose popularity over time due to the issues raised.