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Why do they keep making new languages (lemmy.stonansh.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I talked up above about my feelings on it -- I did Java and J2EE programming for years back in the day, so I'm well familiar with Java and its very real strengths and very real weaknesses. There's good and bad to the many-threads-in-a-process approach, and to the one-process-per-task approach, and to the one-thread-with-async approach. If what you're looking for is many-threads-in-a-process, then yes, Java does it right. But if you're looking for something else, maybe it's going to be wrong. It just depends.

Also can you explain a little more about the implementation that stealthily launches a bunch of node instances in the background?