On Friday, 22 January 2016 at 08:23:48 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
And, IMO, when redoing the syntax one might want to look at
contemporary languages like Swift and C# to see if one can
lower the barrier to entry for Apple and Microsoft type
programmers.
"Contemporary". ;) Aside from Swift's optional semicolons,
they're really not all that different.
I am not sure if looking like C is all that attractive in 2016
as far as recruiting goes. By 2025 C-style syntax might be
viewed as arcane among young programmers.
Like Swift, C#, Javascript, Go, Haxe, Rust, Dart, et al? Really,
people have been predicting the death of curly-braces languages
for decades now, and they're as strong as ever.
Do you have anything to base this on, or is it just what you'd
(apparently) like to see?
-Wyatt
