Which PLs are (almost) "dead" and unpromising?

Question

IT education

What programming languages ​​are definitely not worth spending time on learning and using, because they are already morally and / or technically outdated, slowly developing, they have a weak community, they have more advanced competitors, they are not in demand, etc.? The ones that come to my mind personally are VBA, VB.NET, Ruby, PHP (?), Perl, Raku, Clojure, D, Nim, OCaml (?).

Answer 1

I personally come to mind such as VBA

A few years ago I talked with one weirdo who was indignant at the fact that he was a "cool programmer" who knew a bunch of "cool PLs", but could not find a job, and his "stupid" classmate in a bourgeois company made money on "shitty VBA"
There are no "unpromising "JP, there are unpromising programmers

Answer 2

With Clojure they made a mistake for sure.

Answer 3

A language is "dead" if it is not updated. In IT, everything that is not supported and not adjusted to the realities - dies. Forgotten "cool" framework, language, technology. If it ceases to meet the needs of the constantly developing information world, then it ceases to be needed and dies.
If you want to know what's dead, google the latest updates.
Chasing after pop languages ​​doesn't make much sense either. Here already the answer evgeniy_lm accurately describes everything

Answer 4

Everything you listed EXCEPT PHP and Ruby. In general, it is not clear how you attributed these 2 languages ​​to "dying". In principle, they cannot be compared with the same VBA or perl.

Answer 5

Clojur has just appeared, php and ruby ​​are blooming and smelling

Answer 6

Most likely - Perl, OCaml, Raku, Nim.

Answer 7

Planner!