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So you're using a language just because you have some admiration for what its creator accomplished in the past? Even though what he did has nothing to do with l
by zak_mc_kracken 12y ago
So you're using a language just because you have some admiration for what its creator accomplished in the past? Even though what he did has nothing to do with languages?
Seriously?
- SixSigma 12y agoSeriously. But because Go is the latest of Rob's languages and have spent over 20 years using previous works. It is a relationship built on trust in the concepts. Tackling a language take commitment so it is reassuring when it is built by a team that you trust.
- pjmlp 12y agoExcept all those languages failed in the market until Google sponsorship came around.
- SixSigma 12y agoDepends which market. They're used on IBM's Blue Gene, in Sandia Labs supercomputer centre, Los Alamos Super computer centre, at NASA JPL, ran the lighting at Sydney Olympics, are used in Lucent's mobile phones masts.
- pjmlp 12y agoI didn't knew Alef and Limbo had so much users.
- SixSigma 12y agoLimbo moreso than Alef. And Plan9's C dialect is also under Rob's tutelage.
- pjmlp 12y agoI was being ironic. Never saw Plan 9 and its eco-system having any commercial success. Actually, I wonder how much money Vita Nuova makes out from Inferno.
- SixSigma 12y agoVita Nuova is now just one guy, Charles, but I know he makes a living himself working on/consulting for the systems I mentioned. His colleague Rog Peppe, now works for Canonical doing Go. As I mentioned, Plan9 is used on a few super computer systems for IBM and the DoD.