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I thought stability of the ecosystem (i.e. stable standard library) was also a "must" for adoption by the enterprise. Never thought that a language in flux wit
by themihai 10y ago
I thought stability of the ecosystem (i.e. stable standard library) was also a "must" for adoption by the enterprise. Never thought that a language in flux with "hosting" support from IBM is enough. But now it seems the enterprise world is eager to try the coolest thing and rewrite/refactor it after the next release as long as someone will host/run it.
Now that you enlightened me I can see the stock markets, hospitals, banks and all enterprise consumers embracing Swift and eager to upgrade once Swift 4 is released.
- pjmlp 10y agoJava and Smalltalk both benefited from IBM support. However, Smalltalk later suffered when Visual Age for Smalltalk became Eclipse and IBM switched focus to just Java.
- iheartmemcache 10y agoIBM's BlueBix et al was a direct result of the purchase of Rackspace, which was strategic buy to hedge against the growth market of Amazon and it's bazillion EC2-esque offerings. (Likely in response to seeing Amazon's success, almost strategically similar to why Azure and Google's App Service or whatever exist.) They're still making money hand over fist in maintenance keeping the mainframes up (your state's DMV won't move off MVS/zOS as long as support for their old JCL/REXX stuff is still available, especially those 'cheap' z13s which come in at under 100k) but that's an entirely different tier of customer.
- themihai 10y agoMaybe you mean softlayer. As far as I know Rackspace was recently bought out by someone else. I understand IBM wants to be cool but it doesn't make sense to promote an immature technology as enterprise ready...