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Author here. This is an error in original article. The list is actually a stack rank, so the middle overlaps. But I missed that. Consider those 5 ( Haskell, S
by adamgordonbell 3y ago
Author here. This is an error in original article.
The list is actually a stack rank, so the middle overlaps. But I missed that.
Consider those 5 ( Haskell, Scala, HTML, Shell, and SQL ) the murky middle, perhaps?
I should have done top 8 of something back when I wrote this.
I think the point still holds though. Obviously PL improvements happen, and tooling improvements happen as well.
But also people hate old code bases.
- yawpitch 3y agoEliminating the overlapping 5 does help your point, though I have a feeling Rust will be amongst the most dreaded once Rust is as old as VBA, Objective-C, or whatever “assembly” is… I don’t think it’s old code bases so much as it’s old languages that have accumulated a lot of cruft… the new hotness doesn’t (yet) have the cruft, but because human beings seem to inevitably want to force feature drift, it’ll inevitably gain cruft as it ages and tries to keep market share. Tangentially, thanks for the podcast; really great work.
- adamgordonbell 3y agoThanks for listening!