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You say that like it's a bad thing! If there was a viable young upstart which was better enough to seriously start stealing Rubyists away (perhaps a "Ruby for
by sho 18y ago
You say that like it's a bad thing!
If there was a viable young upstart which was better enough to seriously start stealing Rubyists away (perhaps a "Ruby for functional programming"?) then wouldn't that be a net gain for the world?
I love Ruby but I hope it's irrelevant in 10 years' time, because we've all moved onto something unambiguously better. Think of how much more productive we'll be! : )
- lsb 18y agoAlan Kay, in his Turing award lecture: A couple of years ago we started this project called Squeak, which is simply not an attempt to give the world a free Smalltalk, but an attempt to give the world a bootstrapping mechanism for something much better than Smalltalk, and when you fool around with Squeak, please, please, think of it from that standpoint. Think of how you can obsolete the damn thing by using its own mechanisms for getting the next version of itself.
- sho 18y agoInspiring words from a great man! I think the concept of code generation is yet to sink in to the mainstream programming world, but one might expect it to have a huge impact when it does. Especially in the emerging world of distributed programming.