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by igouy 6 days ago
Which new languages have risen to prominence outside of a niche?
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doug_durham 6 days ago
Rust, Python, Java, Ruby, Scala, Swift to start with. These are languages with very wide adoption. Objective-C is very Smalltalk-like, but it is being phased out for Swift.
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0xpgm 5 days ago
These became popular after Moore's law made it possible many years after C/Unix had become the standard.

And they became just good enough that more people didn't go into Lisp/Smalltalk instead.

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