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It hasn't taken off because it has not been marketed. Languages are products which need to be marketed like everything else. If PG wanted it to take off, then h
by orangethirty 14y ago
It hasn't taken off because it has not been marketed. Languages are products which need to be marketed like everything else. If PG wanted it to take off, then he could market it without much problem. But he has better things to do.
- npsimons 14y agoThis, sadly, may be true. I remember reading PG's essays, thinking, "huh, I'll have to look into arc" then never hearing about it again. It's not packaged for Debian stable (one of my litmus tests), and just about every week I'm hearing about clojure, go, scala, etc, etc, but nothing about arc.
- MrMan 14y agoarc would not take off even if it were more-aggressively marketed, IMHO. it has too few differentiating features compared to other lisp dialects. 'I made a LISP' is not enough, even if it is a nice elegant one.
- orangethirty 14y agoYou are right. Though Javascript with its weirdness took off...
- huherto 14y agoCuriously, this is one the things he disliked about Java. http://www.paulgraham.com/javacover.html http://www.paulgraham.com/javacover.html