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Thank you very much for such detailed reply! If I understand you correctly all these points are about technical implementation mostly, but not the promotion. A

Thank you very much for such detailed reply! If I understand you correctly all these points are about technical implementation mostly, but not the promotion. And they seems for me quite reasonable. But is it really enough to win? Recently I have published my another project: https://github.com/Eliah-Lakhin/papa-carlo https://github.com/Eliah-Lakhin/papa-carlo . This is related to PL development too. And I also have detailed documentations on dedicated website: http://lakhin.com/projects/papa-carlo/ http://lakhin.com/projects/papa-carlo/ . As well as intorucing blog post: http://lakhin.com/blog/15.11.2013-handy-incremental-parser/ http://lakhin.com/blog/15.11.2013-handy-incremental-parser/. And I of course tried to publish these links in various places including HN too. But unfortunately there were too few feedback. So this experience show me that having a good support of the product with Documentation etc is not enought. But maybe I should not project that experience to PL development?

commentzorro 13y ago
For a programming language the "technical implementation" is, by far, the most important piece. No language that I'm aware of has been able to "win" without being ready for production use when the market was ready for it. I don't think any amount of promotion is going to do your language any good unless it's ready for use when people see your promotion. And then, if it's ready for use and has a nice place in the market then I doubt you'll need much more promotion than what I've listed above and some success stories to show it works. Are you really saying that you want to take your language and market it to the top? That's just not going to happen unless your Microsoft, Apple, etc. Unfortunately, you likely don't control enough of a necessary piece of the infrastructure to force people into your language. Go down the TIOBE list and answer for yourself when each language was first developed, when it was production ready, when it caught on, and how much and what type of marketing was needed to put it in the top 50? I think you'll find promotion of the language itself was not very important to its success, but being ready for real use at the right time was. (Is your language ready for production use?)

commentzorro 13y ago

For a programming language the "technical implementation" is, by far, the most important piece. No language that I'm aware of has been able to "win" without being ready for production use when the market was ready for it. I don't think any amount of promotion is going to do your language any good unless it's ready for use when people see your promotion. And then, if it's ready for use and has a nice place in the market then I doubt you'll need much more promotion than what I've listed above and some success stories to show it works. Are you really saying that you want to take your language and market it to the top? That's just not going to happen unless your Microsoft, Apple, etc. Unfortunately, you likely don't control enough of a necessary piece of the infrastructure to force people into your language. Go down the TIOBE list and answer for yourself when each language was first developed, when it was production ready, when it caught on, and how much and what type of marketing was needed to put it in the top 50? I think you'll find promotion of the language itself was not very important to its success, but being ready for real use at the right time was. (Is your language ready for production use?)