Please ELI5, I lost track. I used to learn a bit of C and a bit of Python a few years ago but never really went deeper into programming. And now suddenly it seems that a host of new programming languages have appeared and that stuff that used to work fine in whatever old language it was in is now rewritten in a new language.
How do languages like Golang and Rust differ from older languages (these two have probably been around a while but for me they feel ‘new’)? Why are we coming up with new languages all the time? Besides those two, what other languages are there worth knowing about? Is it worth learning them? Are they going to come up with yet another one next week? (I know, many questions, an invitation to infodump I guess …)
its like this.
is there only one tool in your toolbox? no? why not? cuz you need the right tool for the right job, obv
thats why there are lots of languages. new languages are tools for jobs.
the ‘jobs’ change over time and so do their requirements… the languages are just evolving to match our required workflows
Yes, evolution. The best measure of fitness in any system is diversity. So many languages may be unwieldly for any one person but they’re more fit as a whole system.