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From what I'm seeing on GitHub, Rust has beaten it to the punch, mightily. Levien's Xi video today being yet another example. edit: As for why, languages are
by jstewartmobile 9y ago
From what I'm seeing on GitHub, Rust has beaten it to the punch, mightily.
Levien's Xi video today being yet another example.
edit: As for why, languages are more of a battleground than a substrate. If you have a choice between Swift (Apple), Rust (Mozilla), Go (Google), or D (Walter Bright), most people are going to flock to one of the bigger forces.
Golang is a kind-of underwhelming riff on Pascal, but I use it anyway for network stuff. Why? Google has given it an instant ecosystem with plenty of well tested libraries, docs, and howtos. Never underestimate the ecosystem.
- flukus 9y agoIn lieu of a mega corporation behind you, having a killer app to get people interested seems valuable. Ruby would still be niche without rails for instance, .net would have been an uninspiring java clone without MS RAD tools. You can't just have a good language, you need to show the world that it can be used to build good software.
- jstewartmobile 9y agoI'm really impressed with the Clojure community. They have done a great job sans-megacorp.
- dropit_sphere 9y agoIt helps to have a good language to attract those people.