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Yeah, three companies worth an estimated $300B can keep any language alive. It’s fascinating to track the second wind of out-of-fashion languages, held aloft by
by muglug 5y ago
Yeah, three companies worth an estimated $300B can keep any language alive. It’s fascinating to track the second wind of out-of-fashion languages, held aloft by a few mature companies that depend on it.
- joelbluminator 5y agoI'd argue even without them Ruby would be alive in the sense that the core language would get frequent updates. Even Perl is still alive https://github.com/Perl/perl5 https://github.com/Perl/perl5, even in a healthier state than I would have thought.
- jamesfinlayson 5y agoOh wow, Perl is still getting monthly updates - I knew it was on the decline but I thought the whole Perl 6/Perl 7/Perl 11 fragmentation had left things in a worse state.
- IggleSniggle 5y agoI’ve heard of Raku (Perl 6), but didn’t realize there was a Perl 7 or Perl 11. Pretty interesting problem. In Java land you get Java 8, current Java, Groovy, Kotlin, etc. So Perl is in good company in this regard.
- lizmat 5y agoPerl 11 was a thought experiment. It never actually became anything beyond a website expressing that notion. It got no traction from anybody apart of the originators. And of that I'm not really sure either.
- tyingq 5y agoFacebook and PHP are kind an interesting twist on that. Facebook spent a lot of time and money on Hack/HHVM, then the PHP core devs responded with a new version of PHP that is, in many cases, faster. Though Hack/HHVM is still better for async work.