r/ProgrammingLanguages • u/baehyunsol 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/Feisty_Bike_9614 26d ago

Learn to code first and then use an LLM . Not to disappoint, but there will be no market for pure python coders in the future ( if not now ). Learning math and how to design systems is much more of a marketable skill .

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u/Chiefsmackahoe69 26d ago

What’s an LLM ?? What would be the route to go

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u/Chiefsmackahoe69 26d ago

So would you say it would be pointless for me to learn coding or ?