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Unless hardware changes drastically, I can't really foresee the demand for a new programming language. Who is there to back it? In this era, it has to be one o
by tanilama 7y ago
Unless hardware changes drastically, I can't really foresee the demand for a new programming language.
Who is there to back it? In this era, it has to be one of the big techs out there. Unless they somehow find that educating their 10s of thousands engineers to a new language, and changing their infra accordingly is worthy cost comparing to the benefits the language brings, I didn't see how this would happen really.
- mr__y 7y agoThis is a chicken and egg problem - if there is no "new paradigm" hardware no one will create software for this new thing while when there is no software for that new hardware no one has incentives to buy that hardware. This is the situation somewhat similar to multi-core CPU adoption - this was delayed at least by a decade in consumer computing for that reason. There were even motherboards supporting dual CPU targeted at consumer market (in Celeron/PIII era) but they were never popular outside a niche group of enthusiasts.
- PeCaN 7y agoExisting languages are _terrible_ for today's hardware.
- tanilama 7y agoNot true. They have been optimized for decades. Programming language is as much as about implementation as abstraction
- rini17 7y agoNope, only compilers/interpreters were optimized, not the languages themselves. Languages are the same as conceived in the era of single-core CPUs with one-cycle memory latencies.