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 …)
That’s your perception of course, but I think new programming languages have always been appearing. The thing is that the old ones do not necessarily disappear, so there’s a cumulative effect.
I was looking for a graphical representation, but this wikipedia article shows it better imho. I didn’t count, but it doesn’t look to me like the last 2 decades are overpopulated.
Starts with the Jaquard loom, I already love it, thanks for sharing!