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Java, PHP, RoR, C, they're all here to stay. Even Perl is still kicking, and it'll be decades still before the last line of COBOL has been written. I think the

Java, PHP, RoR, C, they're all here to stay. Even Perl is still kicking, and it'll be decades still before the last line of COBOL has been written. I think there is a general misconception that if a language is not new and growing, then it is somehow going away. If anything, it's probably the opposite. Something like inertia is a much better predictor for language lifetime than than growth or features. In practice, the longer a language has been around and the more likely it is to stick around.

KronisLV 4y ago
> In practice, the longer a language has been around and the more likely it is to stick around. I think this is called the Lindy effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect > The Lindy effect is a theorized phenomenon by which the future life expectancy of some non-perishable things, like a technology or an idea, is proportional to their current age. Thus, the Lindy effect proposes the longer a period something has survived to exist or be used in the present, the longer its remaining life expectancy.