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Interesting; I've never heard of most of those besides Go (& Perl of course). Is CoffeeScript considered a programming language? :O

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FWIW, the first submitter of this post seems to be Jeremy Ashkenas, who was the creator of CoffeeScript:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3128166

Even if you're being half-facetious...while CoffeeScript seems to have fallen in favor with the onset of ES6, it's hard to overstate its influence in 2011...Rails, which was most definitely the hott framework du jour, decided to make CoffeeScript -- along with the much more ubiquitous jQuery and SASS -- part of its default stack: http://www.rubyinside.com/rails-3-1-adopts-coffeescript-jque...

Is there a way to mark duplicates? I did a preliminary search for this topic via google before the post and this previous one hadn't turned up.

It may be because in the past 5 years from today most of these languages have seized development. It is still interesting to see which of the "New Hotness" languages of 2011 are still around and strong. Like Clojure and Go

Years ago, Rob Pike and Rich Hickey seized the development day. Their languages have not ceased development.

The site we're on is running on Arc.

Notice the mention of Dart and Rust as up-and-comers.

Rust seems to be going very good things. Are there tools for translating C++ to Rust? Maybe the translation of an old game engine could be used to bootstrap a Rust game engine?

Rust ia drop-in-C I think.

So you could probably write your Unreal Engine game in Rust.

A while back, someone made a proof of concept Unreal plugin: https://github.com/shadowmint/ue4-static-plugin/

> Is CoffeeScript considered a programming language? :O

No, technically it's a type of vegetable.

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