scala?

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

Where Perl?

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"?

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).

System vs Toy?

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.

Typescript, a language. Hah.

Where's Latin and Summerian? 🤔

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

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

Why is it missing Haskell?

My man put EMCAScript like Oracle was gonna C&D 😅

As a Ruby fan I’m just happy to be included for a change

It's missing another axis, where else is Scott Lang gonna fit?

a lot of suspicuously missing lisps

Is Java more obsolete than c#?