On Saturday, 27 June 2020 at 15:48:33 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
How to answer "why will yours succeed, when X, Y, and Z have
failed?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIHfaH9Kffs
Very insightful talk.
To be honest the analysis doesn't quite stack up. Because
compatibility is not the reason for the success of Go, or Rust.
I would say the success of a language depends on many factors:
* Luck
* Timing - and a need to be filled
* Sufficient commercial usage
* Big name factor - Go authors tried a few times creating
languages that did not succeed until they had Google backing.
* Language offers something sufficiently different solution than
existing solutions
* Tooling
* Quality of implementation
