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Re:Never Retire by Fire-Dragon-DoL on Friday February 02, 2024 @07:44PM (#39236500)
I thought about that, but Java is also the most widespread language, so I don't know if it will be similar to COBOL (I don't know how widespread COBOL was)
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Re:Never Retire by mech422 on Friday February 02, 2024 @07:54PM (#39236561)
COBOL was very widespread - there used to be more lines of COBOL in production then any other language (Mostly mainframe and (super-)mini computer stuff (banks, govt, insurance, etc.)

In another 20-30 years, Java might be a lot less popular then Go, Rust, Python, Ruby, etc? So lots of Java that needs maintenance and not many people left to do it??

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Re:Never Retire by ChrisMarshallNY on Friday February 02, 2024 @08:50PM (#39236871)
Unpopular stance, but the Fishtank Graph[0] tells the story.

PHP is actually a good bet.

[0] https://w3techs.com/technologies/history_overview/programmin...

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Re:Never Retire by mech422 on Friday February 02, 2024 @09:12PM (#39236986)
oh yeah - Can't believe I forgot about Perl and PHP !!

Those could be good bets too. Always fun to speculate whats still gonna be around in 20-30 years :-D

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Re:Never Retire by Fire-Dragon-DoL on Monday February 05, 2024 @08:19PM (#39269577)
PHP is a good bet, but it still powers 50% of the internet.

That's A LOT of websites...

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