The aim is to learn one fromeach quadrant!
Yes, SQL is but a toy language. It probably will never make it into production.
Did you just note Typescript, a superset of JavaScript that needs to be compiled into it, as closer to the system?
Also does it technically constitute a language? That feels like a stretch too.
Did the same with D’s superset, betterC.
betterC is a subset… 🤦
Where’s Latin and Summerian? 🤔
Are those programming languages?
Just imagine any of these programming languages with keywords in Latin. One morning you’re debugging a double ended queue and the next thing you know, a bit flip is being caused by a 300 year old spirit.
I’m not sure “computer” was even a profession back at that time.
The Cult of Pythagoras would like to have a word with you.
They could have been. 😌
@ZILtoid1991 well, according to this, I’ll learn Go.
I started using Go a few months ago, I’m loving it so far. Simple, gets the job done, stays out of your way.
Except for the thousands of lines of boilerplate 🤷♂️
What do you looking for in a programming language? Maybe I can suggest something better.
I’m sure everyone can suggest something better regardless of what they’re looking for in a programming language.
Yeah, the axes on this are weird, why would the opposite of a systems language be a toy language? And why is Lua, a very popular and commonly used language in tons of stuff, a “toy”? And Lua is a nu Lang? It’s older than Java, maybe it just feels newer because each release isn’t necessarily backwards compatible?
OP is a “C guy”
Also Python as a toy lang and somehow more “nu” than Java despite Java being younger?
Why is it missing Haskell?
And Perl
and Scala
And Lisp?
COBOL is about as far from a “toy” as I can imagine. Almost everything corpo runs on it at some level.
And almost no one writes it for fun.
How are you defining “Obsolete” vs “Nu”?
e.g. Brainfuck from 1993 is all the way to Nu, while D (2001) and Rust (2012) are less “Nu”?
Also, what the hell is “nu” supposed to mean?
Funny that nushell is not on here.
Nude 😳
OP probably lived through the mid-1990s rise of “nu-metal” bands like Linkin Park
Maybe short for “Nouveau”.
The “ouvea” being removed:P
It wouldn’t be a good compass if nobody had strong issues with it:
- System vs Toy is not opposed to each other. Should have been system vs abstract or useful vs toy or whatever
- Where LISP? Best language missing makes graph bad
I literally opened it looking for Lisp and dismissed the whole thing when I realized its not there
Haskell’s also not there. I was ready to criticize any quadrant it was put in heh. But that’s probably most because the axes are kinda bad.
a lot of suspicuously missing lisps
A systems language, one of the oldest but still in use and modeled after, used to build expensive research toys, which compiles itself via its interpreter…. is in some 4d space this plane doesn’t slice through.
FORTH also out in space somewhere
Curious how you decided what goes where, I’d hardly consider SQL a “Toy Lang” as opposed to a “System Lang”
That it’s an interpreted language rather than a compiled one. Bytecode and interpreted langs get the Toy Lang treatment. At least SQL has floating points.
Javascript is compiled, just in time.
This guy JITs 👆
That’s… a really dumb definition. And why is C# right in the middle but Java’s towards obsolete and toy lang? They both compile to byte code and are overall extremely similar.
So, it’s an almost useless dimension with misleading names? Yeah, it’s a good “political compass”.
What’s the difference between interpreted and compiled?
Nearly my entire company’s infrastructure is written in Python and Go so I take offense (even if I would prefer to write anything else other than Python, mostly because I like proper typing )
As a Ruby fan I’m just happy to be included for a change
As a Ruby fan having a blast with Elixir, where the hell is anything BEAM related?
The compass is truly political.
AKA: How to annoy a bunch of computer nerds very quickly…
Make one for Linux distros next!!!
By being wildly wrong you mean?
You say “wildly wrong”, they say “incentivizing engagement”.
So rage bait?
You could rent yourself to translate corporate-speak in email and meetings
Precisely. Getting people upset is the foremost technique to farm engagement on social media. Sites such as Facebook even deliberately altered their algorithms to show content that will anger readers because it works so well to keep them invested.
Engagement bait is omnipresent and really obvious once you learn to spot it - even something as innocuous as one or two “accidental” typos in a meme to get people into the comments section.
Is Java more obsolete than c#?
