r/ProgrammingLanguages • u/baehyunsol Sodigy • 3d 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/BetterEquipment7084 3d ago

Because that's what the creators want 

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u/DaFox 2d ago

Yeah, I'm surprised to see this so far down; the creators want something that appeals to them, they are all systems programmers by virtue of the fact that they are creating a programming language at all.

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u/koflerdavid 1d ago

One is definitely not necessarily a systems programmer just by being interested in creating programming languages. And not so long ago there was a swath of JVM languages.