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The article contradicts its own title. The author claims, in the title, that functional languages will rule, some day. Then he does a tour describing each wou
by kjksf 15y ago
The article contradicts its own title.
The author claims, in the title, that functional languages will rule, some day.
Then he does a tour describing each would-be-ruler functional language (erlang, haskell, ocaml, F#, scala) and explicitly says that all of them will remain niche languages i.e. will not rule.
- harryh 15y agoHis thesis is that none of the current crop of functional languages will rule, but that some new functional language not yet invented (or widely known) will.
- ddkrone 15y agoI'm betting on javascript.
- gaius 15y agoA language can't come out of nowhere, because it won't have the critical mass of people, libraries, etc to be usable for "real work". IF a functional language is going to be mainstream in only 5 years, then there are a significant number of people using it today, and it will be generally known in the FP community. Even F# was a) in beta for years b) solved the library problem by piggybacking on C# and c) had a critical mass of OCaml users who could jump straight into it.