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Zig vs Rust. Which one is going to be future? (snac.bsd.cafe)

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Zig vs Rust. Which one is going to be future?

I think about pros and cons and what to choose for the second (modern) language in addition to C.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

And Perl both still exists and is actively maintained, so it “lost prominence” rather than “died”.

Okay, but you're the one who called out "the demise of Perl". Have you changed your mind? I was just responding to your question.

For what it's worth, I think you were right about that: Perl is dead, in the sense of no longer growing or even maintaining the reach it once had. Other languages are overwhelmingly chosen for new code, while Perl has mostly fallen into disuse outside of people who learned it in its heyday and haven't moved on, and irrelevance outside of legacy systems. It might not be quite as much a dead language as Latin (which also still exists and sees some use) but it's well on its way there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Haha, oh yes, definitely not only not actively growing anymore but fully actively declining instead - those internal politics mattered more than the actual language issues themselves, once again. Every time I see another Python update and how very many things they break, I think that thought again. Tbf newer updates breaking older code happens even with C++ too - backwards compatibility affects just everything - though the whole Python 2 vs. 3 definitely still rankles me.

I guess I'm still having emotional trouble letting it go - but that is an absolutely perfect example of Latin, still spoken yet most definitely also considered "dead" at the same time. I guess this about sums it up: