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in other words, a historical accident
by SemanticStrengh 4y ago
in other words, a historical accident
- Spivak 4y agoOutside of Java, Kotlin, and Go are there any languages designed specifically for large scale corporate/enterprisey use?
- ThomasBHickey 4y agoAda
- FartyMcFarter 4y agoCOBOL ?
- SemanticStrengh 4y agoC# indeed. But even javascript has a bearable JIT nowadays. Also no need for the vague enterprisey connotation, only features and performance are needed, which e.g. scala provide and Go do not (feature wise).
- Spivak 4y agoOhh and Swift! I just mean that lots of popular languages were historical accidents when it comes to their use on large scale projects and it’s pretty rare (I suppose less now it seems) for someone to go out and invent languages specifically for large scale repos and “toy language is retrofitted for scale” is a more common narrative.
- SemanticStrengh 4y agoYes historically this has been true but we are past this time, no need for each new language to duplicate it VM, its JIT, its GC.. GraalVM solve it all and bring ecosystems interop.
- aeyes 4y agoErlang/OTP but you are probably asking about the usability once you have 100+ developers working on a project so it doesn't quite fit in. Even Go is questionable here when compared to Java, C# and even C++.