Beijing website construction - five programming languages that may be eliminated

With the development of technology, even the most popular programming language will not be popular forever. With the emergence and application of a new generation of developer languages, even the most popular programming language will be eliminated in the future. If the programming language you learned in your career is related to the following, I suggest you find opportunities to learn other aspects.

First, Ruby

Ruby was also very popular in the past. At that time, it was the top ten programming language in the monthly Tiobe magazine. Because its operation was simple and easy to use, it was supported by many people. But in the past 18 months, Ruby has plummeted in TIOBE's ranking, from 9th to 12th, and then to 16th.

What's more frightening is that according to the data released by Dice in the past year, the number of companies recruiting professional Ruby has declined significantly. In 2018, the data showed a decline of 56%. This data shows that Ruby is slowly leaving the public eye, or even completely disappearing.

Second, Haskell

According to the grapevine, Haskell will conduct a major standard update in 2020. Although well-known companies such as Facebook and GitHub are still using Haskell, Haskell's ranking has dropped to 19 in RedMonk.

Third, Objective-C

Objective-c has been in existence for 35 years. It is obvious that Apple no longer attaches importance to it. Although many people still use it, five years ago, Apple launched a new language for software, Swift, which is a new and improved programming language based on Objective-c.

Today, Swift has become the mainstream language of IOS, but Objective-c has not declined as expected. Maybe most developers prefer to use common languages.

However, it is not certain that it will disappear completely at some time, because Swift is becoming a very effective language for building IOS, MACOS and the upcoming cross platform applications.

Fourth, R language

Originally, R language was a very popular data analysis language, but now, Python has gradually replaced R language. Although R language is used by scholars and data scientists, many companies interested in data analysis are turning to Python because of its scalability and ease of use.

Therefore, R language reduces the popularity index of TIOBE's programming language, while other studies show that the slow decline of R utilization is beneficial to Python. If the R language is to exist in any form, it is because data analysts may eventually use it with Python. Enriko Aryanto, Chief Technology Officer, said earlier this year that it is both reasonable and feasible to combine R language and Python. We run them on the internal data science platform, but if I want to restart my career today, I may consider focusing on Python rather than R language. The former is a more general language with a wider range of applications.

Fifth, Perl

From large machines to portable devices, Perl runs on more than 99 computer platforms and is widely used. Perl takes the features of C, sed, awk, shell scripting language and many other programming languages. The most important feature is that it integrates regular expression functions internally. Although it was brilliant for a while, it could not prevent the popularity of Perl from declining. Considering that a large number of legacy websites still feature Perl code, it will take a long time for this language to completely flatten. However, developers are widely using other languages to build websites, which means Perl will gradually withdraw from the stage.