Programmer Humor

Sadly, as always, Lisp is put in parenthesis and doesn't show here

SQL? Toy?

This is a very bad chart:

• I don't understand what Toy Lang, Nu Lang or even System Lang mean
• How are C and Assembly obsolete?
• How is C++ more obsolete than D or Go?
• PHP still powers a large portion of the internet, certainly not a "Toy Lang"
• Why is ECMAScript here and not JavaScript?

Downvoting.

The hardest hitting rage bait I've seen all year

Yes, SQL is but a toy language. It probably will never make it into production.

What is Fortran's actual address on this visualization?

Asking for a friend.

how is python to the right and mojo at the bottom.

Assembly being obsolete has to be the funniest joke in here. It fundamentally never will be even if its use is niche

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"?

AKA: How to annoy a bunch of computer nerds very quickly....

Make one for Linux distros next!!!

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?

It wouldn’t be a good compass if nobody had strong issues with it:

1. System vs Toy is not opposed to each other. Should have been system vs abstract or useful vs toy or whatever
2. Where LISP? Best language missing makes graph bad

Edit: before people tell me there’s already ‘obsolete’ on the graph, no, there’s loads of obsolete languages that are still useful, and many more new languages that are either built for fun or not used for sad or good reasons.

Edit2: I’m also halfway sure that brainfuck is older than rust (but don’t wanna look it up). But if that’s true your axis mean several things at once anyway and you should feel bad (not really though).

If everything written in those "obsolete" languages suddenly disappeared, the whole world would go dark.

SQL isn't a toy language, it's a domain specific language.

How is C or assembly obsolete when they are literally everywhere is beyond me

And I bet this is based in opinion and not any sort of scientific understanding because you put assembly as an obsolete language…

Curious how you decided what goes where, I'd hardly consider SQL a "Toy Lang" as opposed to a "System Lang"

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.

The only way Assembly will be obsolete is if there were no new chips processor models being created.

Every time a new architecture or a new instruction group is announced, it has to be bootstrapped into the C compiler.

How is cobol toy wasn't it made for military?

COBOL is about as far from a "toy" as I can imagine. Almost everything corpo runs on it at some level.

Where's Latin and Summerian? 🤔

Where Perl?

ngl I'm pretty mad right now

Why is it missing Haskell?

How is Lua further down along the Nu Lang axis than Go, Rust and Nim?