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This is a great presentation, I wish I could hear the talk track. While we can all differ on the right "winner" for the next programming language (I don't thin
by stmw 9y ago
This is a great presentation, I wish I could hear the talk track.
While we can all differ on the right "winner" for the next programming language (I don't think Clojure is the right answer, someone else might), we are all stuck with the same set of facts - and this covers the state of things very well.
Most importantly, it explains certain truths of the social/economic ecosystem for programming languages - which is what gave us Java, Python, Javascript, and a few other really popular systems that seemed unlikely to succeed when they first appeared. The reasons for their success have just as much to do with "ecosystems" than with language features.
- makach 9y agomy thoughts exactly. it's difficult to understand this presentation without the discussion that goes with each slide. it's too easy to just be biased about the meaning of each slide;
- saas_co_de 9y agoOn twitter he says: "The thesis was that programming in 2030 will have very advanced research languages but mainstream languages will effectively stop advancing and we'll be last [sic - left?] with a vast insurmountable gap between the two." That provides some context for what the slides are about.