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.
This chart is easier to understand if you make the following substitutions:
- Toy Lang --> high level language (except brainfuck really is a low level toy language)
- System Lang --> low level language
- Obsolete Lang --> old programming language, regardless of obsolescence status
- Nu Lang --> newer programming language
After understanding this construction, I fail to find any humor in this.
Why is ECMAScript here and not JavaScript?
Among other things, “JavaScript” is a trademark of Oracle.
I fail to find any humour in this. I think the humour are the labels (Toy, System, Nu, Obsolete), which are however incorrect and misleading.
Among other things, “JavaScript” is a trademark of Oracle.
Does this prevent it from being used in memes?
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.
I don’t get what toy lang means?
For playing with, rather than ‘serious’ projects
The opposite of system language, especially as many scripting languages have “beginner” features, like a single number type instead of integers and floats, dynamic types.
I would call that a high level language. Like, the further you abstract from the hardware, the higher level the language.
Calling it a “toy” language implies that it isn’t useful. You have languages in there that are incredibly useful, like SQL, that basically run the entire internet.
No colours? But how am I going to look down on the other three quadrants?
But for real, how did you make it? Hold up, did you screenshot draw.io? You absolute madlad!
You can export from draw.io with dark mode and grid enabled as well. Seeing as the space even on all sides…
What is Fortran’s actual address on this visualization?
Asking for a friend.
pascal on the top left, and python on the bottom right.
🤪
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
…and C++ being obsolete is the second funniest.
It is clearly surpassed by C though this chart seems to have missed that fact.
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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”?
Also, what the hell is “nu” supposed to mean?
Nude 😳
OP probably lived through the mid-1990s rise of “nu-metal” bands like Linkin Park
Funny that nushell is not on here.
Where is Nu lang?
Maybe short for “Nouveau”.
The “ouvea” being removed:P
AKA: How to annoy a bunch of computer nerds very quickly…
Make one for Linux distros next!!!
By being wildly wrong you mean?
You say “wildly wrong”, they say “incentivizing engagement”.
So rage bait?
Precisely. Getting people upset is the foremost technique to farm engagement on social media. Sites such as Facebook even deliberately altered their algorithms to show content that will anger readers because it works so well to keep them invested.
Engagement bait is omnipresent and really obvious once you learn to spot it - even something as innocuous as one or two “accidental” typos in a meme to get people into the comments section.
You could rent yourself to translate corporate-speak in email and meetings
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?
Also Python as a toy lang and somehow more “nu” than Java despite Java being younger?
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.
OP is a “C guy”
It wouldn’t be a good compass if nobody had strong issues with it:
- System vs Toy is not opposed to each other. Should have been system vs abstract or useful vs toy or whatever
- 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).
I literally opened it looking for Lisp and dismissed the whole thing when I realized its not there
Haskell’s also not there. I was ready to criticize any quadrant it was put in heh. But that’s probably mostly because the axes are kinda bad.
