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[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 17 points 7 hours ago

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

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 7 hours ago

C is more obsolete than Rust. Coding directly in assembly is rare. Beyond that it's more subjective.

[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 11 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

The C which is an integral part of every linux kernel on every computer and server running linux as the OS and all the embedded systems everywhere and almost all the performance critical parts of python libraries?

I won't have much to say about assembly since don't use it but far as I know low level parts of OS such as bootloader likely still uses assembly not to also mention embedded systems.

As long as both of these exist in embedded systems, it is just statistically weird to call it obsolete even in regards to other languages.

For instance data scientists majorly use python, but python critically depends on C and devices they use critically depend on C and assembly. Can you then really say what they do does not depend on C and assembly and python is more widely used?

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 7 hours ago

So, the Linux kernel is already partially moved over to Rust. It's probably in the Python ecosystem too, although I can't actually say.

More obsolete was a deliberate word choice. Hell, even COBOL is still used.

[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

yea but Rust is not above %80 of the languages in the chart. It is not just a matter of C being more obsolete than Rust it is more like C being one of the most obsolete in the chart. Can't call it that until it is replaced %80 by something else in systems that exists world-wide and everywhere.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 5 hours ago

I'd actually use some kind of projected future to define obsoleteness. Like, fossil fuels are obsolete relative to renewables, because there's going to be more going forwards even though there's more fossil fuels right now.

Athough, I have no idea if Mojo or Nim are going anywhere, and Brainfuck isn't. Maybe there's a dimension of novelty that's also flattened into that axis.

[-] sunbeam60@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Many games are still hand optimised in assembly, at least the inner loops.

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 points 6 hours ago

Compilers are pretty damn good at doing that by now.

I can believe there's some direct assembly usage down in the depths of Unity and Unreal engines, but the average game dev is probably not going to touch it.

[-] hperrin@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 hours ago

I don’t get what toy lang means?

[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

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.

[-] hperrin@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 hours ago

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.

[-] NostraDavid@programming.dev 2 points 5 hours ago

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!

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 hours ago

pascal on the top left, and python on the bottom right.

🤪

[-] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 3 points 6 hours ago

Fortran is NOT obsolete you take that shit back

[-] gwilikers@lemmy.ml 5 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

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

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Yeah, that one caught my eye too. Brainfuck is also pretty old IIRC, and it's hiding down there in the bottom right.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 9 hours ago

Was it a deliberate choice to leave JavaScript off entirely?

[-] alt_xa_23@lemmy.world 6 points 8 hours ago

ECMAScript is included, which is the official JavaScript standard

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 8 hours ago

I actually did miss that one. TIL.

Interesting that it's just as nu as TypeScript, despite TypeScript definitely coming after.

[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

I roughly based the nu-obsolete scale on language features not age (or use), TypeScript is just ECMAScript with an optional type safety feature.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

I see! So you'd say type safety is system-type feature, then?

[-] x00z@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago
[-] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 5 points 8 hours ago

Hahaha gottem XD

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

That's just Java

On the off chance that you don't already know, that's a totally different thing named after the same drink.

[-] x00z@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago

I'll pull out the emojis for this one.

👉️😎👉️

[-] jkercher@programming.dev 3 points 8 hours ago

Odin mentioned!

[-] Aquaphobi@lemmy.zip 21 points 14 hours ago

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

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 9 hours ago

I read that as "directly, without a compiler", in which case it's close to fair, although I would have still put it ahead of COBOL because sometimes it's necessary.

[-] 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 hours ago

Should it not say "machine code" then? It would still be bizarre to call it obsolete, given that it's literally the foundation of all the other languages in the chart. It's like saying letters are obsolete because we have words now.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Why? An assembler isn't the same thing as a compiler. (Although, I'm not personally sure where the dividing line is. Where would literally just an assembler with loops instead of goto classify?)

The practice of directly using assembly is relatively obsolete. To bootstrap you might have to a bit, but writing Rollercoaster Tycoon in it was already an anachronism. I'm not really sure how to fit that into your analogy, because there's no word-compilers in wide use. If voice-to-text had became that dominant, typing would be obsolete, I guess.

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[-] svcg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 16 hours ago

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

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Yeah, but 3D political compasses just don't have the same hold on people.

[-] ulterno@programming.dev 21 points 17 hours ago

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.

[-] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 19 points 18 hours ago

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

[-] lime@feddit.nu 9 points 16 hours ago

i like how you've managed to include just a single non-procedural language, and it's the most interesting one by far, and you're calling it obsolete. says a lot.

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[-] josefo@leminal.space 14 points 18 hours ago

ngl I'm pretty mad right now

[-] Scoopta@programming.dev 98 points 1 day ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

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

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[-] KazuchijouNo@lemy.lol 53 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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

Make one for Linux distros next!!!

[-] nialv7@lemmy.world 20 points 18 hours ago

By being wildly wrong you mean?

[-] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 20 points 18 hours ago

You say "wildly wrong", they say "incentivizing engagement".

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