The guy who invented NodeJS (a "fashionable" giant hack) got up and said he regretted it and now uses Go. Did that stop anyone from running up the tech debt with NodeJS? After all, "everyone is doing it!" So easy to start banging out JavaScript...
At the other extreme you have Swift which is not Good (as opposed to no good) until V5 which is now obsoleted by V6. Do we all know how screwed Apple is when it comes to LLM training coverage of Swift 5 or 6? Short of their own codebase (and even then), where are they going to get enough training data to help all the Vibe Coders and novices? Could take years to resolve this.
Weird future, eh? So FORTH may not be "fashionable" but it is hella fun and very good in a number of dimensions. With the right LLM interfaces (which love large libraries of concise word-like primitives), world domination is assured.
At the other extreme you have Swift which is not Good (as opposed to no good) until V5 which is now obsoleted by V6. Do we all know how screwed Apple is when it comes to LLM training coverage of Swift 5 or 6? Short of their own codebase (and even then), where are they going to get enough training data to help all the Vibe Coders and novices? Could take years to resolve this.
Weird future, eh? So FORTH may not be "fashionable" but it is hella fun and very good in a number of dimensions. With the right LLM interfaces (which love large libraries of concise word-like primitives), world domination is assured.