On Wednesday, 16 December 2015 at 04:36:28 UTC, Joakim wrote:
don't think that's what they're after. It seems to be unseating C/C++ as the major systems and application programming languages, while simultaneously expanding that market upwards into higher-level domains C++ can't get into today.
I think that this cannot happen without making asm.js a primary target. Being able to port engines to the browser is just too valuable. Even for compilers...
been. Each of these AoT languages will likely maintain their own niche, and C++ has so much legacy baggage- they never talk about getting rid of the preprocessor, that's when I'll know they're serious- that at least one of them will displace it at the top, maybe D. :)
Yes, learning C++ is time consuming. I don't think it will be replaced in a decade, but Swift will take away some from it in the applications area. Just like C++ has taken away from C. Maybe Rust, maybe D3... ;)
