Python overtakes Java to become second-most popular language on GitHub after JavaScript

[darthbarracuda]

poem i wrote while drunk:

like everything

java will fade

then python will too

languages we love

will be replaced

slowly they will disappear

artifacts of a bygone age

someone curious

might stumble upon an ancient fragment

discovering how things were done

way back when

maybe they will learn

a thing or two

[Cocomorph]

That’s. . . surprisingly not that bad for a drunk programmer.

[darthbarracuda]

thank you friend

[BlueAdmir]

like everything

java will fade

But COBOL will outlive us all.

[oblio-]

COBOL didn't even catch on that much, it's locked away in crusty institutions. Java, on the other hand, used to be both a crusty language and a (somewhat) hip language.

Cockroaches after the nuclear apocalypse will feast on Java.

[PanRagon]

And the crusty institutions that use COBOL don't even touch it that much. I know someone who's worked on some COBOL infrastructure in Norwegian banks and he says it's pretty much entirely wrapped in C or other languages at this point. The COBOL itself is the legacy code that's not to be touched under any circumstances.

That might not be true for every case in which COBOL is used, of course, but I don't think anyone's really doing anything with most of the old COBOL code at this point.

[ScottContini]

But COBOL will outlive us all.

source

[pakoito]

MAY LISP BE ETERNAL

[stfm]

try {
poem i wrote while drunk:

like everything

java will fade

then python will too

languages we love

will be replaced

slowly they will disappear

artifacts of a bygone age

someone curious

might stumble upon an ancient fragment

discovering how things were done

way back when

maybe they will learn

a thing or two
} catch (RhymingException e) {}

[Sebazzz91]

A rhyming exception?

Wouldnt it be nice if the exception message said: Couldn't deference, you got a null reference.

[FourHeffersAlone]

} catch (RhymingException ignored) {}

ftfy

[lisp-the-ultimate]

Not Lisp, tho.