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Polyglot Platform

140 points by adamwiggins 15y ago

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audionerd 15y ago
I noticed C#/.NET didn't make the list.
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- pygy_ 15y ago
  I don't think that their infrastructure runs on Windows. You may perhaps get Mono one day...
SkyMarshal 15y ago
>Programming-centric news aggregators such as Hacker News and the programming subreddit give curious developers exposure to buzz about new languages. Minor, but the coding subreddit is another good one: http://www.reddit.com/r/coding http://www.reddit.com/r/coding
- stephth 15y ago
  what's the difference between the two?
  - awj 15y ago
    The coding subreddit is largely a reaction to the loss of focus and meme-infestation of the programming subreddit. It seemed to also be more theory-heavy at the time, but looking at it now it appears to be striking a better balance.
daeken 15y ago
TreeFrog is listed as a web framework for C, but it's really a web framework for C++. They may seem similar, but they're really two totally different languages. The mixup of C and C++ is really not a good thing.
pavpanchekha 15y ago
Whatever minor factual flaws the blog post had, Heroku is on the right track. Deployment is a pain, and putting together a language-agnostic way of solving it is much needed. Not that I'm happy with that way involving someone else's servers, but fundamentally, too much effort has been wasted on language-specific products. I applaud Heroku's efforts and hope the general focus on building pan-language frameworks continues.
ionfish 15y ago
Haskell could also fit easily into that table, especially since people already [1] have Haskell projects running on Heroku's Cedar platform. Dependency management: Cabal, Hackage. REPL: GHCi. Embedded webservers: Snap, Warp, Happstack Server. Web frameworks: Snap, Yesod, Happstack. [1]: http://www.yesodweb.com/blog/2011/07/haskell-on-heroku http://www.yesodweb.com/blog/2011/07/haskell-on-heroku
tlrobinson 15y ago
I love where is Heroku is headed. Screw "Heroku for X"… Heroku is "Heroku for X".
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icebraining 15y ago
Ugh, python is a terrible REPL, give me ipython any day. Yes, I know this is irrelevant to the article's point.

Polyglot Platform

140 points by adamwiggins 15y ago

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audionerd 15y ago

I noticed C#/.NET didn't make the list.

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pygy_ 15y ago
I don't think that their infrastructure runs on Windows. You may perhaps get Mono one day...

SkyMarshal 15y ago

>Programming-centric news aggregators such as Hacker News and the programming subreddit give curious developers exposure to buzz about new languages. Minor, but the coding subreddit is another good one: http://www.reddit.com/r/coding http://www.reddit.com/r/coding

stephth 15y ago
what's the difference between the two?
- awj 15y ago
  The coding subreddit is largely a reaction to the loss of focus and meme-infestation of the programming subreddit. It seemed to also be more theory-heavy at the time, but looking at it now it appears to be striking a better balance.

daeken 15y ago

TreeFrog is listed as a web framework for C, but it's really a web framework for C++. They may seem similar, but they're really two totally different languages. The mixup of C and C++ is really not a good thing.

pavpanchekha 15y ago

Whatever minor factual flaws the blog post had, Heroku is on the right track. Deployment is a pain, and putting together a language-agnostic way of solving it is much needed. Not that I'm happy with that way involving someone else's servers, but fundamentally, too much effort has been wasted on language-specific products. I applaud Heroku's efforts and hope the general focus on building pan-language frameworks continues.

ionfish 15y ago

Haskell could also fit easily into that table, especially since people already [1] have Haskell projects running on Heroku's Cedar platform. Dependency management: Cabal, Hackage. REPL: GHCi. Embedded webservers: Snap, Warp, Happstack Server. Web frameworks: Snap, Yesod, Happstack. [1]: http://www.yesodweb.com/blog/2011/07/haskell-on-heroku http://www.yesodweb.com/blog/2011/07/haskell-on-heroku

tlrobinson 15y ago

I love where is Heroku is headed. Screw "Heroku for X"… Heroku is "Heroku for X".

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icebraining 15y ago

Ugh, python is a terrible REPL, give me ipython any day. Yes, I know this is irrelevant to the article's point.