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30 years ago people planned rewrite stuff written in C in C++. 20 years again people wanted rewrite stuff written in C/C++ in Java. Now people wanted to rewr
by nabla9 4y ago
30 years ago people planned rewrite stuff written in C in C++.
20 years again people wanted rewrite stuff written in C/C++ in Java.
Now people wanted to rewrite stuff written in C/C++/Java in Rust.
Meanwhile core infrastructure of humanity still runs on COBOL, C, C++, Java in that order.
20 years from now people ask AI to rewrite all stuff written in C/C++/Java/Rust and it picks ADA SPARK as implementation language.
- a2800276 4y agoYou forgot Fortran!
- Zurrrrr 4y ago20 years from now programming as we know it today will be a very specialized field and not necessary for most things, and language discussions will be a thing of the past.
- ho_schi 4y agoI already thankful for an modern init- and system-management implemented in C, using plain config-files. Sometimes being slow and careful is wise. Think of XML, hard to read and hard to parse. And an implementation language with broad support and reliability is a good thing for projects which should remain for decades.