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Maybe, I love Go but I'm not sure it's the next "hot" thing, all the recent "hot" languages have been scripting languages PHP, Ruby, Python, JS ... I'd say JS

Maybe, I love Go but I'm not sure it's the next "hot" thing, all the recent "hot" languages have been scripting languages PHP, Ruby, Python, JS ... I'd say JS and Python are currently jockeying for that position.

danielscrubs 7y ago
Isn’t JS one of the most popular languages? It has a monopoly in the browser so that and C++ already has the most impact on users. Hard to see how it can become more popular.
- arcticfox 7y ago
  The server-side of things can start eating away at other languages. Node.JS is obviously already very popular but it can still grow massively. I for one have started running TypeScript on my servers whenever I can, I love it. There's still room for improvement though.
  - lioeters 7y ago
    > running TypeScript on my servers I'm curious, do you mean compiling to JS and running it on the servers? Because I would love for the runtime itself to run TypeScript, something like Deno [0] but (maybe in the future) as mature as Node.js. [0] https://deno.land/ https://deno.land/
- saagarjha 7y ago
  > It has a monopoly in the browser Well, there’s WebAssembly…
- Ensorceled 7y ago
  That's what I mean: Python and JS are jockeying for position as the hot language right now.
gwd 7y ago
> all the recent "hot" languages have been scripting languages All the languages you list are over 20 years old. I think the popularity of Go and Rust show that statically-typed languages are having a resurgence. As a long-time C programmer (with significant bits of bash and perl on the side), I've really enjoyed learning Go. But the responsiveness to developing new language features has been _sooo sloooow_. We'll have to see in 10 years if this turns out to have been a wise decision or not.
- Ensorceled 7y ago
  You could be right, especially as microservice architectures are very popular.

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Maybe, I love Go but I'm not sure it's the next "hot" thing, all the recent "hot" languages have been scripting languages PHP, Ruby, Python, JS ... I'd say JS

by Ensorceled 7y ago

danielscrubs 7y ago
Isn’t JS one of the most popular languages? It has a monopoly in the browser so that and C++ already has the most impact on users. Hard to see how it can become more popular.
- arcticfox 7y ago
  The server-side of things can start eating away at other languages. Node.JS is obviously already very popular but it can still grow massively. I for one have started running TypeScript on my servers whenever I can, I love it. There's still room for improvement though.
  - lioeters 7y ago
    > running TypeScript on my servers I'm curious, do you mean compiling to JS and running it on the servers? Because I would love for the runtime itself to run TypeScript, something like Deno [0] but (maybe in the future) as mature as Node.js. [0] https://deno.land/ https://deno.land/
- saagarjha 7y ago
  > It has a monopoly in the browser Well, there’s WebAssembly…
- Ensorceled 7y ago
  That's what I mean: Python and JS are jockeying for position as the hot language right now.
gwd 7y ago
> all the recent "hot" languages have been scripting languages All the languages you list are over 20 years old. I think the popularity of Go and Rust show that statically-typed languages are having a resurgence. As a long-time C programmer (with significant bits of bash and perl on the side), I've really enjoyed learning Go. But the responsiveness to developing new language features has been _sooo sloooow_. We'll have to see in 10 years if this turns out to have been a wise decision or not.
- Ensorceled 7y ago
  You could be right, especially as microservice architectures are very popular.