On Tue, 23 Dec 2014 19:54:19 +0000 via Digitalmars-d <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tuesday, 23 December 2014 at 19:14:02 UTC, ketmar via > Digitalmars-d wrote: > > and so D. and i still has to learn libraries for all that. yet > > people > > talking Go being magic bullet: just use concurency and that's > > all! > > > > nope. that's not all. that's not even the biggest part. > > Library support is really important when doing web servers and > integration with existing systems and workflows. and learning libraries is not free (if such libraies exists in the first place). yet people talking about Go tend to ignore this fact. > This is not an area where D will be able to compete anytime soon with all the C support libraries available D is not in a bad position. > I have to connect to Google infrastructure no wonder google support this with one of their pet language. ;-) > to legacy databases like Pervasive does it have C interface library? > parse Excel files good god! > add encryption cross platform in a web-server? O_O > Every other project might need a new library if > you are to integrate with existing solutions, so there is really > no end to what you need to support... that's where C libraries comes to rescue. > Reality check on stuff that could be relevant for a server: > https://github.com/trending?l=go&since=monthly yes, this is good indicator of "hypeness". that's all. > > 1. take gw-basic. > > 2. take Google. > > 3. let Google to throw money into gw-basic hype. > > 4. people start writing alot of software in gw-basic. > > > > there is no direct corellation between "being good in technical > > sense" > > and "being successfull". but there is such corellation between > > "advertising by Big Player" and "being successfull". > There is a strong correlation between not having a stable release > and getting less attention from people who write libraries and > frameworks for commercial use. i personally don't give a shit about that. i already expressed my attitude to "commercial use", even though i'm an employer myself. > Besides, Basic got traction at a time where people charged for > good languages, it was available for free and was not too > demanding on resources so it was built into the ROM on basically > all home computers in the 80s. That's how Basic got big. i took gw-basic as a widely-known sample of bad language. you can replace it with your language of choice if you want, it doesn't matter.
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