It is clearly surpassed by C though this chart seems to have missed that fact.

Nude 😳

OP probably lived through the mid-1990s rise of “nu-metal” bands like Linkin Park

Funny that nushell is not on here.

Maybe short for "Nouveau".
The "ouvea" being removed:P

Where is Nu lang?

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

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.

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?

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.

So, it's an almost useless dimension with misleading names? Yeah, it's a good "political compass".

That's... a really dumb definition. And why is C# right in the middle but Java's towards obsolete and toy lang? They both compile to byte code and are overall extremely similar.

Javascript is compiled, just in time.

Nearly my entire company's infrastructure is written in Python and Go so I take offense (even if I would prefer to write anything else other than Python, mostly because I like proper typing )

What's the difference between interpreted and compiled?

betterC is a subset... 🤦

They could have been. 😌

I'm not sure "computer" was even a profession back at that time.

Just imagine any of these programming languages with keywords in Latin. One morning you're debugging a double ended queue and the next thing you know, a bit flip is being caused by a 300 year old spirit.

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.

I actually did miss that one. TIL.

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

Hahaha gottem XD

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.

It’s JavaScript with sugar added.

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?