Lets be honest here, Perl is sticking around for awhile, it's more widely used than people realize, especially in the realm of bitcoin applications/interfaces with the hardware miners, so needless to say Perl has been picking up more traction due to that alone in the last couple years, not to mention RaspberryPi's and all the other DIY boards that have become popular.
However for the other languages on that list, (at least my personal opinion)...
Ruby seems like it died awhile back, it was a very short lived language in the eyes of many true developers. I personally saw the biggest gain/support of Ruby from "script kiddez", which also made me shake my head.
VB.NET has seen to be on it's why out for some time, the last time I can even remember coding in VB was VB 3.0, granted it was useful back then, for certain aspects.
Adobe Flash & AIR, Flash's wide adoption, basically due to very few options at the time when Flash reigned supreme made it so popular, but it's absolutely horrid these days, the fact it's held on this long is a complete mind-fuck, one can only attribute that due to the wide adoption, of which companies/people aren't willing to pay/learn enough to move away from it. One can only PRAISE the day Flash is complete no more.
Objective Pascal, yup, that's dead, somewhere in the far corners of the world we have a few developers trying to maintain some code base, begging the higher ups to re-write it in another language.
Ya... doesn't take a genius to figure out, the more something is widely used by the public the more flaws/security holes will be discovered.
Mac's are much better than Windows in handling security, however it's kind of a new brainer when Mac's haven't been so much in the "public" eye for years to not hear much about security flaws, yet when the public is now jumping on the bandwagon... more people are going to discover more things and this will peak the malicious interests...
so big fat... "DUH"...
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Lets be honest here, Perl is sticking around for awhile, it's more widely used than people realize, especially in the realm of bitcoin applications/interfaces with the hardware miners, so needless to say Perl has been picking up more traction due to that alone in the last couple years, not to mention RaspberryPi's and all the other DIY boards that have become popular. However for the other languages on that list, (at least my personal opinion)... Ruby seems like it died awhile back, it was a very short lived language in the eyes of many true developers. I personally saw the biggest gain/support of Ruby from "script kiddez", which also made me shake my head. VB.NET has seen to be on it's why out for some time, the last time I can even remember coding in VB was VB 3.0, granted it was useful back then, for certain aspects. Adobe Flash & AIR, Flash's wide adoption, basically due to very few options at the time when Flash reigned supreme made it so popular, but it's absolutely horrid these days, the fact it's held on this long is a complete mind-fuck, one can only attribute that due to the wide adoption, of which companies/people aren't willing to pay/learn enough to move away from it. One can only PRAISE the day Flash is complete no more. Objective Pascal, yup, that's dead, somewhere in the far corners of the world we have a few developers trying to maintain some code base, begging the higher ups to re-write it in another language.
Ya... doesn't take a genius to figure out, the more something is widely used by the public the more flaws/security holes will be discovered. Mac's are much better than Windows in handling security, however it's kind of a new brainer when Mac's haven't been so much in the "public" eye for years to not hear much about security flaws, yet when the public is now jumping on the bandwagon... more people are going to discover more things and this will peak the malicious interests... so big fat... "DUH"...