[MintelIE]

This is why I like long-established technologies. You can build most anything with typical POSIX utilities and time-worn libraries. And they will be there for you in 25 years. Who knows where Rust and Go and Node will be in a quarter century?

[mjevans]

I worry about go 2.0 and personally will revisit the question based on what the outcome looks like. Rust also seems to have good momentum and as an outsider glancing in, generally sane architectural decisions. It remains a language I would _like_ to consider on a future toy project if it fulfills the needs of the space.

I feel they will continue to be "supported" for a long time, like Perl 5 surely will be. (Though I'd avoid starting anything new in it, there are stable mature things written in it that, like with mainframe stuff mentioned elsewhere, might just end up being encapsulated.)

[_pdp_]

You can apply the Lindy power law :)

[MintelIE]

Looked it up finally, I agree. It's why we have steering wheels instead of joysticks (except for the people who have a leg-related disability, they've been driving with joysticks for like 100 years).

[booleandilemma]

What’s Node? Is that like Deno?

[MintelIE]

I mean, like totally, I also very thoughtlessly forgot to call Go by its official name as well. And neglected the registered trademark and copyright symbols!