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by MH15 1780 days ago
What's the newest -real- language do we think? Not just "gained popularity recently" but actually newer.
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This depends on how we define a language.

Ada 2012, for instance, is a significant update to Ada proper (better integrated support for design by contract, among other things). The next iteration (and its SPARK subset) is potentially closing some of the gap between Ada and Rust in the areas where Rust is presently "safer" (by some measure, here primarily memory safety) than Ada.

C++20 versus C++98 (what I initially learned) is a very different language (or has the potential to be) thanks to its greatly expanded support for certain modes of programming that C++98 did not offer. But its differences with C++17 are a lot smaller, so they're more obviously "the same" language.

Swift might be the most important of the newest languages. Of course there's a new language every day, but swift has a significant user base and is still under 10.