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> $currently_trending_language by your definition, is that any language less than 50 years old?

• seabass-labrax 3y ago
  That would be more like 30 years since C was truly trendy, and maybe 20 in some areas like embedded software engineering and games development. C was the top of the pile for decades, and I think when you compare it strictly to other languages that were available during that time it becomes clear why (not that is necessarily better than those other languages, but why it was so terrifically popular).
  • pjmlp 3y ago
    Ah, that is why we now have everyone cheering for Zig, which is basically Modula-2 (1978) with C like syntax. Apparently since the Morris worm (1988), it took a while to undestand what kind of features C was capable of.