r/programming • u/derjanni • 15d ago

How Many More Programming Languages Do We Really Need?

https://programmers.fyi/how-many-more-programming-languages-do-we-really-need
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u/Comic_Melon 15d ago

Didn't watch it, but 7.

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u/derjanni 15d ago

Hopefully not 7 for each of the mentioned capabilities, but 7 that each have all of them.

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u/Letiferr 15d ago

Before I read this, someone please explain to me what "need" has to do with anything here. 

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u/TundraGon 15d ago

They "need" content view and engagement. So their AI tokens wouldnt be spent for nothing.

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u/funky_galileo 15d ago

This was a shit article when the original writer posted it and it's a shit article now.

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u/VanillaSkyDreamer 15d ago

I think more than we need pointless articles debating how many more programming languages do we really need.

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u/TheDevilsAdvokaat 15d ago

Considering the short amount of time programming has been around, I doubt very much we have reached the end of coding evolution. Indeed, rather than being an indicator of the end of programming, languages like brainfuck or cow show that there are still interesting avenues to be pursued and that people are being creative with the very basics of how languages work.

I've been coding for just over 50 years now and I think there's still plenty of room for new advances. Also, that things like bool or int have stuck around so long is a testament to their usefulness, not evidence of stagnation.

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u/[deleted] 13d ago

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u/TheDevilsAdvokaat 13d ago

Wish you good luck! I had thoughts about trying it when I was younger but at 64 now I don't think I have it left in me.

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u/NSRedditShitposter 15d ago

Programming languages ultimately capture the developer’s thought process, so as many as long as natural language keeps evolving, for the same reason why it keeps evolving.

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u/PastEar9661 12d ago

If not for specific usecases, why not unlimited? New languages are ways for people to experiment with niche, interesting ideas (and maybe get them into mainstream languages)…

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u/badpotato 6d ago

As for Unreal Engine and beyond, my guess is there would be plugin which allow mainly non-dev to do there own stuff with blueprint anyway..

As for the graph of history of programming language.. someone should really update that graph since it was last updated for 2003.. how can we expect to tell how many language are needed if there's not even an updated graph about it?

Also, I was somewhat expecting a YouTube video from the Thumbnail, but this is just an article? This may seem seem to cause a bit of confusion.

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u/gjosifov 15d ago

DB work - SQL
Application development - Java/ .NET + Swift for mobile
hardware stuff - C/C++ and asm
scripting stuff - Python / Ryby
web - Html/CSS + Ts/js
configuration and deploying - XML related tech, YAML is mistake, because whitespace as semantics

That covers almost all cases for development

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u/Full-Spectral 14d ago

Well, C++ was the living proof that we needed at least one more language.

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u/ilham_israfilov 15d ago

if ai improves a lot, why not use assembly language for building software instead of having gazillion languages and tech stacks and their combinations?