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by Fire-Dragon-DoL 872 days ago
That's way harder to accomplish unfortunately. Unless I study COBOL too
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mech422 872 days ago
Hehe - yeah.. by the time millennials retire I'm not sure what it would be ... Java maybe ?
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Fire-Dragon-DoL 872 days ago
I thought about that, but Java is also the most widespread language, so I don't know if it will be similar to COBOL (I don't know how widespread COBOL was)
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mech422 872 days ago
COBOL was very widespread - there used to be more lines of COBOL in production then any other language (Mostly mainframe and (super-)mini computer stuff (banks, govt, insurance, etc.)

In another 20-30 years, Java might be a lot less popular then Go, Rust, Python, Ruby, etc? So lots of Java that needs maintenance and not many people left to do it??

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ChrisMarshallNY 872 days ago
Unpopular stance, but the Fishtank Graph[0] tells the story.

PHP is actually a good bet.

[0] https://w3techs.com/technologies/history_overview/programmin...

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mech422 872 days ago
oh yeah - Can't believe I forgot about Perl and PHP !!

Those could be good bets too. Always fun to speculate whats still gonna be around in 20-30 years :-D

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Fire-Dragon-DoL 869 days ago
PHP is a good bet, but it still powers 50% of the internet.

That's A LOT of websites...

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