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This sounded so promising until the OCaml part. The problem is, the masses don't program in OCaml. They program in C# or Java, or C++. So this is really lock-fr
by deadgrey19 10y ago
This sounded so promising until the OCaml part. The problem is, the masses don't program in OCaml. They program in C# or Java, or C++. So this is really lock-free programming for OCaml, which is a lot less relevant.
- wolfgke 10y agoIn the original paper (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11908821 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11908821) it is impplemented in Scala.
- deadgrey19 10y agoHow is that different? Neither Scala nor OCaml rank in the top 10 programming languages according to several metrics/organisations [1-5]. Keeping in mind that programming language use is a heavily skewed distribution, OCaml and Scala have almost zero usage relative to the big ones. So, again I must ask, how is this relevant to the masses? [1] http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe_index http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe_index [2] http://pypl.github.io/PYPL.html http://pypl.github.io/PYPL.html [3] http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/the-2015-top-ten-programming-languages http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/the-2015-top-ten... [4] http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2016/02/19/language-rankings-1-16/ http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2016/02/19/language-rankings-1-16... [5] http://www.codingdojo.com/blog/9-most-in-demand-programming-languages-of-2016/ http://www.codingdojo.com/blog/9-most-in-demand-programming-...