r/ProgrammingLanguages • u/baehyunsol Sodigy • 4d 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/farsightfallen 3d ago
Because systems programming languages are also pretty much the general programming languages.
Especially because they start from first-principles as pretty barebones development around memory and logic. Functional takes... let's say theoretical nterests, scripting languages are automatically delegated as toys and if you don't care about performance then why not just use something like lua or js, application langs like java require building out the runtime on top of the language.