On Wednesday, 15 October 2014 at 10:32:53 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
Now the going native wave that hit Microsoft, has made them
create the Windows Runtime, having .NET compile to native code
in Windows Phone 8 and create the .NET Native, the
ahead-of-time native code compiler for .NET.
Yes, these moves are interesting to watch. Not sure how it will
turn out unless Microsoft truly embrace cross-platform
development.
On a related note I found these notes on the Go roadmap
interesting:
http://dotgo.sourcegraph.com/post/99652962343/brad-fitzpatrick-on-the-future-of-the-go-programming
Go 1.4:
- precise GC for everything
- start of Android support
Go 1.5:
- concurrent GC with marginal pauses (15ms?)
- start of iOS support
- cache-friendly scheduler ("NUMA")
- tracing in browser (Chrome)
And people are working on Go->PNACL and Go->Javascript compilers…
I haven't really looked much at Go in the past two years, but it
looks like D has roughly 18 months to get the GC up to speed or
make programming without GC really comfy.
At some point quality of implementation, programmer productivity,
tools and platform support matters more than semantic details if
both language A and B can do roughly the same things.
IF the Go developers succeed in reaching their goals, which is a
gamble. But neither Google or Microsoft lack resources or the
motivation. So it all hangs on project management and strategic
thinking I think. :)
Competition and choice is a good thing. We'll see.
