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?

[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Also Python as a toy lang and somehow more "nu" than Java despite Java being younger?

[–] jkercher@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I think the order of Java and Python makes perfect sense. The OOP C++ -> Java pipeline was massive in the early 2000s when python wasn't really on the radar. The world has been slowly moving away from that, and Python is one of the most popular languages right now.