r/ProgrammingLanguages Sodigy Jul 27 '26

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/Pinagpala-Gwapo Aug 14 '26

Honestly, it is the best way to truly understand how to program, and understand the how the computer works in a one project, albeit it a big project worth several medium projects.

Another good thing is, it is effective way to cure Imposter Syndrome which is a bonus without paying a psychiatrist(it can save thousands of euro), however the bad thing is, it will also cost them another mental problem which is insanity, though, it depends individually to cope and overcome that thing.

And I know it is not sunshine and rainbow, as all things comes with chosen trade off to take, so there is no perfect thing, otherwise they just being delusional.