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Anyone brave enough to bet which ones are going to turn out big ? Swift has a big potential in the sense that it's backed by Apple, and looks like Objective C
by b0rsuk 9y ago
Anyone brave enough to bet which ones are going to turn out big ?
Swift has a big potential in the sense that it's backed by Apple, and looks like Objective C reimagined for Apple's purposes.
Rust has Mozilla backing, and it's already popular around here, so I won't elaborate.
Extra points for naming languages which will succeed despite not being initially corporation-backed.
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- jdonaldson 9y agoSwift will rise and fall with iOs. Rust will gradually eat Unix tooling, and supplant C. WebAssembly will be really interesting. It could finally be the tech layer that replaces the JVM. I'm not sure what the winning language will be though.
- pavlov 9y agoSwift is more like C++ reimagined for Apple. It doesn't have the pervasive late-binding dynamism that made Objective-C such an interesting and powerful minimalist extension of C. (However that minimalism was already lost when Apple started bolting random language features onto Obj-C sometime around 2010.)
- frou_dh 9y agoElm has a fair chance of distinguishing itself for client-side webapps, because the language and its library are a complete holistic design for that exact domain. i.e. it's not yet another general purpose language, or yet another piecemeal JS mutation.
- jdonaldson 9y agoIn terms of web-oriented languages that are succeeding despite not being company-backed, Haxe is my personal favorite. Its flash target improved on AS3 compilers back in the day, and is now providing a bridge for old Actionscript developers to exit their collapsing walled garden.
- gravypod 9y agoCrystal will likely come through on many promises and be more widely adopted. Some more polish and it will be great to use.