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And those are the secret ingredients of a great language for team programming. And thats why Go will dominate the market that once was meant for Java.

• tigershark 10y ago
  I really hope not, there is already a lot of awful code around written in Java. I can't imagine codebases on the MLOC range written in a language even worse than java 1.4 (it didn't have generics, but at least it had exceptions)
  • bitmapbrother 10y ago
    There are MLOC of awful code in every language including your favorite.
  • oscargrouch 10y ago
    "bussiness" languages will never change. It will be Cobol, Java, C#, Go, and then something like that in the future. The truth is, theres not enough smart people to do things in the hundreds or thousands in a more sophisticated language. And also speaking of smartness, sometimes, using simple tools, can help you focus on algorithms. Linus and crew coded the whole Linux in C, a language with very few resources, and considered pretty ugly by today's standard. So i can see the beauty of that, even when you are able to use any sort of more sophisticated language, sometimes chosing something that can be shared with more people can pay off, instead of a more "elitist" language, with a higher barrier of entry. And also lets not forget, that theres always some economics at play. Where companies not focused in IT will choose tech that can scale by the number of employees, do its job and be cheap as possible. I think there will be no antidote for that. It will always be some reincarnation of Java.
  • geodel 10y ago
    There are already MLOC projects in Go like Kubernetes, Docker etc.