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In the C/C++ world: will Carbon catch on? I feel the enthusiasm from the community is mixed
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Rust? So many people are real fans of Rust and rewrites in Rust happen surprisingly often. However I feel that many developers don't bother learning it since the learning curve is steep and the compile-time memory management is disappointing to me
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Java/Kotlin world: In the early days the JVM was a dream for compability - but do we still need this? Should Java just die? People hate the performance and prefer Docker Kubernetes everything or Apps in native or Electron. It's neither here nor there. And so many Apps in Java 8 where nobody wants to pay for a Kotlin of Java 17 rewrite.
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Frontends in Angular/React. Do you think this is the be-all-end-all? I certainly don't.
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Python seems to have blurred the borders on what a programming language and what a User-tool is. And I'm sceptical about non-global interpreters.
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Go? I still can't figure out where it's place in the landscape is or will be
Overall I think we live in interesting times for programming languages - what do you think?