Are programming languages pretty much "stable" for now?
- by Sauron
Recently i have looked at the "timeline" of Programming Languages and while a lot has changed in the past 5-10 years, there are a lot of languages that have pretty much "stayed" the same in their niche/use.
For example, let's take C language. We don't really ever see much languages being developed (correct me if i'm wrong) to try to Unseat C. However, there are a lot of languages that try to do similar things (look at all the SQL/No-SQL languages) Scripting Languages, etc...
Is there a reason for this trend?
Or is it just because C was designed very well ? and there isn't really any need for new once?