The Past, Present and Future of Programming Languages
summary
Main claim: mainstream programming languages evolve slowly and remain dominated by 20th‑century designs; TIOBE’s top 10 accounts for 70% of TIOBE and the top five ~60%, showing a highly skewed, stable distribution. Evidence: Python far ahead, only one or two 21st‑century languages crack top lists; Stack Overflow traffic declines pre‑AI and ChatGPT (Nov 2022) accelerates that trend. Concrete shifts: Excel adds full LAMBDA (Dec 2020); LLMs routinely generate Python/JS/TypeScript because AI favors languages with lots of data, so new languages struggle to gain mainstream foothold.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:05Future of programming languages
- 6:22Legacy languages dominance
- 13:05Evolution of mainstream languages
- 20:46Legacy code influence
- 27:47Origins of structured programming
- 33:08Von Neumann style escape?
- 37:26Excel as functional language
- 42:23Shift to machine learning
- 44:10AI shaping programming
- 47:41Will AI end languages?
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