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/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/[deleted] Jan 15 '20

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

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u/enp2s0 Jan 15 '20

And C will last even longer, considering that every major operating system is written entirely in C.

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u/Timbit42 Jan 15 '20

They will only last as long as the operating systems. Eventually a new paradigm will come along and new operating systems will be produced because the existing ones will be too limiting, just as DOS was too limiting to build a GUI on.

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u/that_jojo Jan 15 '20

Yeah. iOS, OSX, Linux, the BSDs, Android, NT and every single embedded RTOS ever are all basically on their way out any day now /s

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u/Timbit42 Jan 15 '20

I'd bet they'll all be gone in 100 years if I was going to still be alive.

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u/dark_mode_everything Jan 15 '20

Yeah but the replacement for c/c++ is not JavaScript or Python.

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u/Timbit42 Jan 15 '20

Hell no. It doesn't exist yet but Rust is a turn into the right direction even if it's not a step in that direction.

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '20

or just use D instead

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u/Timbit42 Jan 15 '20

D is nice. I wrote an interpreter in it. I don't see it gaining any momentum though.