On Tuesday, 5 January 2016 at 16:10:21 UTC, Jason Jeffory wrote:
Any more thoughts?
In our times programming languages exist and are adopted for market reasons. Because the basic needs have been fulfilled, better alternatives like D can get relatively ignored by the market for a long time. We never had such excellent languages, such an amount of new ones, yet the old players tend to get more entrenched like somehow history stopped.
Brookes noted long ago that new language design would yield diminishing returns: http://worrydream.com/refs/Brooks-NoSilverBullet.pdf
That and the fact that hardware/OS vendors have incentive to push entrenched languages to developers, I don't see something too shocking happening in the language space.
