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5 programming languages on the wall

The oldest programming language still running

Bash, running 37 years since 1989.

37y 146d Bash has outlasted every other programming language here.
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Bash (1989), Python (1991) and PHP (1995) lead the 5 programming languages still running. The list spans 20 years, from Bash to Go (2009), and only counts products with a written entry and a founding date; nothing here is dated from a Product Hunt launch. Closed programming languages are on the closed list.

Ranked by how long it has run

oldest first

  1. Bash since 1989 37y 146d
  2. Python since 1991 35y 254d
  3. PHP since 1995 31y 146d
  4. JavaScript since 1995 30y 332d
  5. Go since 2009 16y 356d

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