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Which new languages have risen to prominence outside of a niche?


Rust, Python, Java, Ruby, Scala, Swift to start with. These are languages with very wide adoption. Objective-C is very Smalltalk-like, but it is being phased out for Swift.


These became popular after Moore's law made it possible many years after C/Unix had become the standard.

And they became just good enough that more people didn't go into Lisp/Smalltalk instead.




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