On Friday, 16 May 2014 at 13:52:37 UTC, Etienne wrote:
On 2014-05-16 9:45 AM, Chris wrote:
You're kidding, aren't you. How can anything developed by a
company
become a real standard, catering for what developers need? The
thread
about Go not featuring generics is a good example. Look at
what happened
to Java. Market shares, strategic thinking, these all play
into it, and
don't forget the BIG EGOS you usually find among those who run
those
huge companies. Do you think that all decisions are made based
on sound
empirical evidence? Yeah, right.
You know the C programming language was pushed forward by AT&T
right? And you know Google's SPDY is part of the HTML2 draft? I
don't know what your opinions on the big corporate machines
are, but some really smart software engineers and pioneers are
being employed there with revolutionary ideas.
C isn't the best programming language. Only because something is
everywhere, doesn't mean it's good (Windows comes to mind, and
other big brands). As to the revolutionary ideas, are they really
revolutionary or do they serve some corporate interest? Are there
better ideas that will never be put into practice because they
don't serve or even go against corporate interest? Is D still a
small player because it is too community-oriented? (I hope this
will never change!)
Mind you, how many of the big "be all end all"-technologies that
have been hyped over the years are really good (including
community base projects)? JS, Java, Ajax, PHP, Ruby, iOS, Android
...? With good I mean really good, not omnipresent.
