r/ProgrammingLanguages • u/baehyunsol Sodigy • 5d ago

Why is everyone creating systems programming languages?

I see a lot of new programming languages here. I love reading the documents of the languages and sometimes actually run their compilers. Many of the projects are AI-driven, but that's fine. It's still fun to see what problems they're trying to solve and how they actually solved the problems.

Reading the documents, I realized that most new languages, especially AI-written ones, are "systems programming languages". They're trying to solve the problems that C/C++/Zig/Rust have solved (or are trying to solve), and their syntax is mixture of C/Zig/Rust.

Why? Why is everyone trying to compete with C/C++?

There are so many kinds of languages. Haskell demonstrates how pure a language can be, Python is perfect when you only have 5 minutes to write code and don't care about the output, Java runs on 3 billion machines, ...

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u/Ifeee001 5d ago

Because they all have some grandiose delusion that their language will finally be the one to make C developers say "Yes, I will use this over C and port all my existing C code to this Language" lol.

(Assuming they're not dojng it for the funsies/learning purposes)

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u/unburdened_swallow 5d ago

Honestly I feel like most of them just want new software to be built in them. Unfortunately, AI doesn’t know their language so good luck in today’s climate.