[rspeele]

SQL, C, Javascript: the three kings of "good enough".

Bad enough that their flaws are evident even to novice practitioners.

Good enough, entrenched enough, that they will be around for the next 50 years too.

[FLT8]

All three are also superficially easy to learn to use, hence they're able to sucker people in initially with the learning curve, then keep them there with the sunk cost fallacy.

[gregw2]

I think C will "be around" like COBOL in 50 years given its footguns despite its ubiquity today.

Not sure about SQL and Javascript though; successor options are way less clear.

[collyw]

Does AI do COBOL yet? Maybe that's where all the jobs will be in a decade. It's not like there are a ton of blog posts about how to do stuff in COBOL to train it on.