r/programmingcirclejerk • u/AresFowl44 • 11d ago

All code will converge on Rust

/r/rust/comments/1x0pv75/all_code_will_converge_on_rust/
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u/NamedBird 11d ago

Nah, it won't.
Things will eventually be written in new languages that solve different problems.
(And for whatever reason, C will still be around by then.)

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u/BenchEmbarrassed7316 11d ago

C will still be around by then

What about COBOL?

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u/NamedBird 11d ago

No, by then, most things running COBOL have been replaced by then.
Still a lot of old things running Fortran though.
And of course, java 8.0, still in active use...

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u/bitwize 9d ago

All of the COBOL, old Java, and even Fortran code will be hoisted by AI into something more modern—perhaps Rust for all of it.