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 …)
If you’ve been programming for a while, you can learn how to make your own language variant in something like 1 or 2 days. Not just compiler but tooling for an IDE and code completion too. So it’s relatively easy to do.
Personally I’d want to create a language that combines the memory model of rust with the syntax of python and has pipeline coding like nushell or powershell. When it’s done it will be the perfect language and everyone will want to learn it and use it for everything! /s
Yeah,but you won’t be able to get a job with it for five years.