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Go and Julia are already reaping the benefits. I see no future for Python be that 2 or 3. It's not great at anything, but projects a veneer of friendliness (th

Go and Julia are already reaping the benefits. I see no future for Python be that 2 or 3. It's not great at anything, but projects a veneer of friendliness (that one should quickly outgrow) on top of a pile of bad implementation decisions and terrible design. Its popularity is based on superficial attributes rather than solid foundations. Eventually, the entire ecosystem will collapse and the masses will flood to the next attractor.

js8 10y ago
Julia can be a good competitor to Python, but far in the future. Now it's just not there yet. Go is interesting, but really a different (and perhaps smaller) use case. What, for instance, I do in Python? That little one-off script that converts one thing to another or calculates something - I am not sure why I would even bother thinking about Go. I have no doubt that at some point, Python will be replaced by something. But I don't think it will be any of the languages that are currently in widespread use. Heck, C is also not based on solid foundations (I mean like type theory or something), and it wasn't fully replaced yet.
- xamuel 10y ago
  >C is also not based on solid foundations C is based on the solidest possible foundation: the actual hardware CPU.
  - Thiez 10y ago
    The C abstract machine doesn't have that much in common with any actual hardware. I suppose it sort-of resembled the PDP-11 once.
    - dekhn 10y ago
      C does not define an abstract machine. That's the runtime implementation's job.
- statsmatscats 10y ago
  What's wrong with Julia? 1.0 should be coming out in a bit less than a year.