Ask HN: Do Programming Languages Die?

Re:Ask HN: Do Programming Languages Die? by simonblack on Thursday August 01, 2019 @03:09AM (#20581637)

Old programming languages never die, but they very rarely get used, except for very minor tweaking of decades-old programs.

Some of my own rarities: BASIC, Pascal, 8080/Z80 assembler, 8086 assembler, COBOL, Java.

It's been pretty much C only for me since the mid-90s, with a little SQL thrown in for good measure.

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Re:Ask HN: Do Programming Languages Die? by mpetkevicius on Thursday August 01, 2019 @05:36AM (#20582375)

How can Java be a rarity if almost every Android app is written in it?

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Re:Ask HN: Do Programming Languages Die? by simonblack on Thursday August 01, 2019 @07:31PM (#20589356)

Note the "my own rarity" part. I haven't used Java since the 1990s.

Then again, not many programmers (relatively speaking) develop apps for Android. More programmers develop apps for systems other than Android.

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Re:Ask HN: Do Programming Languages Die? by ps101 on Friday August 02, 2019 @05:46AM (#20591718)

Regardless of your personal list, Java is still one of the most popular languages today and nowhere near being "dead" in the slightest. No one's individual list of used/unused languages is relevant in this case - the question is about mass adoption and active development.

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