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By this measure, C, or C++, or Ruby must be dead, since I've not seen any new code written in it during my 13 years in the industry. That said, I suspect there
by bmj 13y ago
By this measure, C, or C++, or Ruby must be dead, since I've not seen any new code written in it during my 13 years in the industry.
That said, I suspect there are fewer people picking up Perl for the first time for a project these days. My experience with it has always been driven by some degree of "legacy"--someone on the team has experience with the language, and has leveraged CPAN to solve problems. Perl is still my go-to "glue" and tooling language, but that's just because what I know. Would Ruby work? Yeah, probably, but I've not found it to be worth it to learn that language yet.
- sim0n 13y agoI see C and Ruby code being written every day in San Francisco.
- bmj 13y agoSo the bellwether of a language's health is whether it is being used in San Francisco?
- orclev 13y agoTo be fair I see C and C++ used all over the place. Pretty much any game out there has at worst a 50% chance of being written in C++. C is less common, but is still used quite extensively in the open source world. Most devices with firmware are written in C (or at least their drivers are).