Why are there so many programming languages? And why are there still being so many made? I would think you would try to perfect what you have instead of making new ones all the time. I understand you need new languages sometimes like quantumcomputing or some newer tech like that. But for pc you would think there would be some kind of universal language. I’m learning java btw. I like programming languages. But was just wondering.

  • snownyte@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Especially if one of them is based off the other.

    Rust is based off of C/C++
    Ruby is based off of Perl, Smalltalk, Eiffel, Ada, BASIC, Java, and Lisp

    Just a couple of examples. Quite frankly, it’s dependent on what system, what infrastructure .etc that’ll be the call for a specific programming language. Nothing wrong with just picking one or two and sticking to them.

    And I think that’s what a lot of beginners in wanting to study programming languages can fall into, they want to be the jack of all trades in programming. But there’s this problem of a new language coming in all of the time and it can get very wiry trying to remember them all.