Alive programming languages

77 entries marked alive.

Decade1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s

FamilyC 29 Independent 24 ML 14 ALGOL 11 BASIC 9 Esoteric 9 Lisp 8 shell 7 Pascal 6 Forth 4 APL 3 Erlang 3 Prolog 3 Python 3

StatusAlive Maintenance Dormant Dead Lost Superseded

Name	Years	Status	Family	Creator / origin
AdaLog	—	Alive	Prolog	Rocky L. Oliver
MALBRMicro ALB Rust	—	Alive	BASIC	Rocky L. Oliver
Assembly languageasm	1949–	Alive	Independent	Machine-specific (EDSAC initial orders onward)
FORTRANFortran	1957–	Alive	FORTRAN	John Backus / IBM
APLAPL\360	1966–	Alive	APL	Kenneth E. Iverson
Forth	1970–	Alive	Forth	Charles 'Chuck' Moore
C	1972–	Alive	C	Dennis Ritchie / Bell Labs
Prolog	1972–	Alive	Prolog	Alain Colmerauer & Philippe Roussel / Marseille
Smalltalk	1972–	Alive	Smalltalk	Alan Kay, Dan Ingalls, Adele Goldberg / Xerox PARC
SQL	1974–	Alive	SQL	Chamberlin & Boyce / IBM
Scheme	1975–	Alive	Lisp	Guy Steele & Gerald Sussman / MIT
AWK	1977–	Alive	C	Aho, Weinberger & Kernighan / Bell Labs
Ada	1980–	Alive	Ada	Jean Ichbiah team / CII-Honeywell Bull for US DoD
ABAP	1983–	Alive	COBOL	SAP
VHDL	1983–	Alive	HDL	US DoD / Intermetrics
Common Lisp	1984–	Alive	Lisp	X3J13 committee
MATLAB	1984–	Alive	MATLAB	Cleve Moler / MathWorks
PostScript	1984–	Alive	Forth	Warnock & Geschke / Adobe
Verilog	1984–	Alive	HDL	Phil Moorby / Gateway Design
C++	1985–	Alive	C	Bjarne Stroustrup / Bell Labs
Erlang	1986–	Alive	Erlang	Armstrong, Virding & Williams / Ericsson
Perl	1987–	Alive	Perl	Larry Wall
Wolfram LanguageMathematica	1988–	Alive	Independent	Stephen Wolfram
Bash	1989–	Alive	shell	Brian Fox / GNU Project
RocqCoq	1989–	Alive	ML	Thierry Coquand / INRIA
Haskell	1990–	Alive	ML	Haskell committee
J	1990–	Alive	APL	Iverson & Roger Hui
Z shellzsh	1990–	Alive	shell	Paul Falstad
Python	1991–	Alive	Python	Guido van Rossum / CWI
K	1993–	Alive	APL	Arthur Whitney / Kx
Lua	1993–	Alive	Lua	Ierusalimschy, de Figueiredo & Celes / PUC-Rio
R	1993–	Alive	S	Ihaka & Gentleman / Auckland
DelphiObject Pascal	1995–	Alive	Pascal	Anders Hejlsberg / Borland
Java	1995–	Alive	C	James Gosling / Sun Microsystems
JavaScript	1995–	Alive	C	Brendan Eich / Netscape
PHP	1995–	Alive	C	Rasmus Lerdorf
RacketPLT Scheme	1995–	Alive	Lisp	PLT (Flatt, Felleisen et al)
Ruby	1995–	Alive	Ruby	Yukihiro 'Matz' Matsumoto
OCaml	1996–	Alive	ML	Xavier Leroy et al / INRIA
C#	2000–	Alive	C	Anders Hejlsberg / Microsoft
D	2001–	Alive	C	Walter Bright / Digital Mars
Scratch	2003–	Alive	Independent	MIT Media Lab
Scala	2004–	Alive	ML	Martin Odersky / EPFL
F#	2005–	Alive	ML	Don Syme / Microsoft Research
Haxe	2005–	Alive	C	Nicolas Cannasse
SPARK	2005–	Alive	Ada	Praxis → AdaCore
Luau	2006–	Alive	Lua	Roblox
PowerShell	2006–	Alive	shell	Jeffrey Snover / Microsoft
Agda	2007–	Alive	ML	Ulf Norell / Chalmers
Clojure	2007–	Alive	Lisp	Rich Hickey
Idris	2007–	Alive	ML	Edwin Brady
Nim	2008–	Alive	Independent	Andreas Rumpf
Chapel	2009–	Alive	Independent	Cray / HPE
Go	2009–	Alive	C	Pike, Thompson & Griesemer / Google
Rust	2010–	Alive	C	Graydon Hoare / Mozilla
Dart	2011–	Alive	C	Lars Bak & Kasper Lund / Google
Elixir	2011–	Alive	Erlang	José Valim
Kotlin	2011–	Alive	C	JetBrains
Red	2011–	Alive	REBOL	Nenad Rakočević
Julia	2012–	Alive	Independent	Bezanson, Karpinski, Shah & Edelman / MIT
TypeScript	2012–	Alive	C	Anders Hejlsberg / Microsoft
Lean	2013–	Alive	ML	Leonardo de Moura / Microsoft Research
Crystal	2014–	Alive	Ruby	Borenszweig, Wajntraub & Borlaug / Manas
GDScript	2014–	Alive	Python	Juan Linietsky / Godot
Solidity	2014–	Alive	C	Gavin Wood et al / Ethereum
Swift	2014–	Alive	C	Chris Lattner / Apple
RakuPerl 6	2015–	Alive	Perl	Larry Wall & community
Odin	2016–	Alive	C	Bill 'gingerBill' Hall
Zig	2016–	Alive	C	Andrew Kelley
AdaLogic BASICALB	2017–	Alive	BASIC	Rocky L. Oliver
Gleam	2019–	Alive	Erlang	Louis Pilfold
Nushellnu	2019–	Alive	shell	Nushell team
VVlang	2019–	Alive	C	Alex Medvednikov
Carbon	2022–	Alive	C	Chandler Carruth et al / Google
Hare	2022–	Alive	C	Drew DeVault
Mojo	2023–	Alive	Python	Modular / Chris Lattner
PolyGlot BASIC (PGB)PGB	2026–	Alive	BASIC	Rocky L. Oliver