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A comment on Ask HN: What languages of the last 20 years are here to stay?.

Re:Ask HN: What languages of the last 20 years are here to s... by EnderMB on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @06:29AM (#19672446)
C# is nearly twenty years old, and is still developing at a rapid pace. As more people switch towards .NET Core, I can see more people adopting the language and framework. On the same stack, I can also see PowerShell remaining for a long time, due to its scripting power on the Windows platform. As long as Windows is around, PowerShell will stay and continue to evolve.

Alongside these, I can see Rust expanding its reach, probably not to general purpose developing, but taking over more use cases from C++.

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Re:Ask HN: What languages of the last 20 years are here to s... by jetti on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @10:50AM (#19674096)
You bring up a good point with .NET Core potentially increasing the use of C#. I would love to see new languages coming out for the CLR as well. It seems like there was a bunch in the first few years but it has dwindled to only a few non-Microsoft CLR languages with some of those no longer maintained (Boo and Nemerle).
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Re:Ask HN: What languages of the last 20 years are here to s... by EnderMB on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @12:04PM (#19674841)
Above anything else, I would love to see F# get more love. From my experience, it's in a weird place where .NET devs would love to use it, but either don't see the benefit of switching, or don't see how to switch.

If Microsoft were to tackle a new language, I'd love to see a systems language, especially as many industries still use Windows to build software in C++. A language that can be used alongside Rust for things like gaming would be fantastic.

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Re:Ask HN: What languages of the last 20 years are here to s... by peterbozso on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @11:47AM (#19674666)
PowerShell is also cross-platform now: https://github.com/powershell/powershell
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Re:Ask HN: What languages of the last 20 years are here to s... by EnderMB on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @11:53AM (#19674720)
That's fantastic! A lot of people laugh at building software on Windows, but one of the things I really miss since moving to OSX/Debian is using PowerShell for scripting tasks.
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