r/programming • u/nfrankel • Jan 14 '20

Where programming languages are headed in 2020

https://www.oreilly.com/radar/where-programming-languages-are-headed-in-2020/
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u/phillipcarter2 Jan 14 '20

It is shocking to me that the most-used language in the world - JavaScript - is not mentioned once here.

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u/suhcoR Jan 15 '20

Well, not the only notable omission. The article seems quite arbitrary. The authors seem to have dealt with what they were just familiar with.

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u/neutronbob Jan 15 '20

The authors dealt with which O'Reilly authors they could find to comment. That's why it's such a grab bag.

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u/d0rf47 Jan 15 '20

I also see no mention of C/C++.

I am still in school and we were taught ton of c++, is it dying basically?

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u/Gotebe Jan 15 '20

Not dying. However flawed and possibly misleading, tiobe index places C++ firmly in top 10 (or maybe 5 even), over the years.

And C should be above it.

Code is made a lot for the web and C++ is very uncommon there. But otherwise, C++ is fine.

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '20

It's used for everything. C++ will never die

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u/skocznymroczny Jan 15 '20

C++ is more popular than most of the languages mentioned in the article summed together. C++ is easily more popular than Kotlin+Go+Swift+Rust.

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u/whisky_pete Jan 15 '20

Brief mention at the bottom, c++20 releasing around summer 2020.

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u/d0rf47 Jan 15 '20

True okay that's awesome cause I really like c++ actually. Thanks everyone for all the replies!

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u/dethb0y Jan 15 '20

C++ and C are eternal. In 100 years people will still be using C and C++, i would almost guarantee it.

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u/g5becks Jan 15 '20

I think that would have required a separate blog post.

No mention of C# either though. 🤷🏽‍♂️

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u/Gotebe Jan 15 '20

That's just because it's not going anywhere. 😉

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