The Ages of Programming Language Creators

I&#x27;m confused by the criteria for what&#x27;s included and what&#x27;s not.<p>Not included: Zig, Elm, Odin, Hare<p>Included: GCC (not a language), Jekyll (not a language), Bel (not even sure there&#x27;s a complete implementation, definitely not widely used)

Again? What&#x27;s the purpose of spam posting this again and again? (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=40412135">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=40412135</a>, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=40409129">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=40409129</a>) XML, JSON, JQuery and Emacs aren&#x27;t programming languages. What&#x27;s the difference of Perl 6 and Raku in terms of their creator (who arguably ain&#x27;t Larry Wall). Scala.js is not a programming language either and afaik not created by Martin Odersky.<p>If someone wants to plug this as a valuable data source on programming language they should probably clean up a bit.

Can you really call JSON a programming language? Or for that matter...XML?

I think with llvm, the ability exists for much less experienced folks to create languages.<p>We now have a <i>ton</i> of “not-major” languages. It seems that we get at least five, mentioned here, every week.