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Note the downward trend in the number of new programming languages per decade. Probably because this field of CS has reached maturity stage and new greenfield p
by d_silin 3y ago
Note the downward trend in the number of new programming languages per decade. Probably because this field of CS has reached maturity stage and new greenfield projects are less in demand.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_programming_languages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_programming_langua...
- tromp 3y agoThose are only the "notable" languages. If we consider less than notable languages as well, we might get something like the languages on Rosetta Code [1]. Looking throught the history of that page, I see that about 10% of the current 834 languages were added in just the last 5 years. Which is much less suggestive of a downward trend. [1] https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Rosetta_Code/Rank_languages_by_popularity/Full_list https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Rosetta_Code/Rank_languages_by_...
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