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Why do they keep making new languages (lemmy.stonansh.org)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/programming

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Why are there so many programming languages? And why are there still being so many made? I would think you would try to perfect what you have instead of making new ones all the time. I understand you need new languages sometimes like quantumcomputing or some newer tech like that. But for pc you would think there would be some kind of universal language. I'm learning java btw. I like programming languages. But was just wondering.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago

We should make one programming language to rule them all!

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/standards_2x.png

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago (5 children)

The same reason anyone creates a new product in an existing market - they want money.

[–] SuperFola 1 points 2 years ago

I'll bite the bullet: I'm making my own scripting language for fun, as a learning experience and a tool for my own projects. If it can help others, great! But that's not my main goal.

In nearly 5 years working on it, I've made at most 400$ from donations and grants. Open source isn't a viable source of income, no matter what ; and programming language dev is even less profitable.

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[–] bob742 -1 points 2 years ago

We don't/ None of them are a significant improvement on PL/1 other that having objects (which hadn't been invented.) I blogged on this recently. https://bobbrowning.wordpress.com/2023/07/02/typescript-i-quite-like-it-plus-bonus-rant-about-languages/

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