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> I worry overall that this could signal the complete end of new programming languages except in a few special cases. I don't think anything has changed in thi
by Arch-TK 2y ago
> I worry overall that this could signal the complete end of new programming languages except in a few special cases.
I don't think anything has changed in this regard. Yes we have a small number of success stories like elixir or rust, and then we have a few corporate backed success stories like go, swift and kotlin. But that has always been a tiny fraction of the "promising new programming language" space.
Companies have always been conservative about choice of programming language and I don't think that will get any worse now.
- awongh 2y agoAs I referenced elsewhere in this thread, I'm specifically thinking about the fact that if tools for AI coding become a standard part of dev workflow, new languages might not ever get off the ground because the AI hasn't seen enough about the new language on the internet and thus doesn't know enough about new languages to be helpful in AI assisted coding- a new kind of negative feedback loop.
- Arch-TK 2y agoYes and my point is that the kinds of people who over-rely on AI and can't seem to get anything done without it are the kinds of people who previously over relied on stack overflow and copy paste. The kinds of people who would have in the past tried a new and unproven language are still there and they're unlikely to stop trying new and unproven languages just because AI doesn't know them. I for sure am not going to stop looking at weird new and/or obscure languages just because AI struggles with them.