By 59nadir
> As in, it’s been around for 40 years and it’s not even in the top 50 on TIOBE ranking vs C which is everywhere. The index has its flaws, but being >50th is certainly a significant failure.
Are we assuming that the only type of success is continued growth and adoption? By this measure, every language that will ever have been conceived will fail eventually… Or is there a cut-off when you can’t say a language failed any longer because at least it peaked high?
There are lots of languages that have been big and have influenced all of programming and software development. I don’t know if we can just blanket label them as failures because they don’t have many users at the moment.
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