On Tuesday, 12 August 2014 at 11:09:37 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
On Tuesday, 12 August 2014 at 09:57:28 UTC, Chris wrote:
On Monday, 11 August 2014 at 20:31:55 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
Am 11.08.2014 19:40, schrieb ketmar via Digitalmars-d:
On Mon, 11 Aug 2014 16:23:19 +0100
Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d
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Google definitely try to push Go :-)
so you mean that Go can't walk on it's own and needs to be
constantly
pushed by Google so other people will think that it's alive?
heh.
Yes, just look to the previous incarnations of Go (Alef,
Limbo, Oberon 2).
What is actually happening is the Rails, NodeJS hipsters now
found a new toy, just because it has the Google stamp on it.
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Paulo
Try duckduckgo.com. I typed "dlang vs golang". Then do the
same in google. The results are worlds apart!
What happens, if one day Google says that they will abandon
Go, cos it didn't bring the desired results? Just like
companies tend to abandon languages and frameworks at random.
Remember Google translate? Java Swing is to be replaced by
JavaFX. Now Objective-C is becoming obsolete. There are loads
of examples. People flock to technologies backed by big
companies, because they think it's safer to do so. But again
and again, companies just drop technologies as they see fit.
Open source has been more reliable. Most frameworks still
exist (think of all the Linux stuff).
I can think of very few successful programming languages in the
market without corporate backing.
Even standard ECMA/ANSI/ISO ones, where at a given point in
time, corporate languages.
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Paulo
But they didn't remain proprietary languages, they were made
publicly available and standardized, kind of "open sourced", to
ensure they'd survive. The whole world could use them regardless
of the OS or hardware in question. I doubt that Swift for example
will be successful on a larger scale, as long as it's bound to
Apple devices only.
My point was that it's a common misconception to think that
corporate backing (or ownership) will guarantee a) a _good_
language and b) continuity. Apple made Objective-C popular, but
is now dropping it. There ain't no guarantee, even if a language
is backed by a big corporation.
