On 2009-11-19 22:10:57 +0100, retard <[email protected]> said:
Even the open source community is using more and more dynamic languages such as Python on the desktop and Web 2.0 (mostly javascript, flash, silverlight, php, python) is a strongly growing platform. I expect most of the every day apps to move to the cloud during the next 10 years.
There are many possible scenarios when it comes to cloud computing. E.g. on the immensely popular iPhone, every application is a mix of Objective C/C++, compiled to machine code. While many iPhone applications are relatively dumb and usually communicate with webservers, this shows that native applications are preferred by segment of the market over applications that live in the browser.
And server-side, there's also a lot of static language development going on. Often dynamic languages don't scale, and you'll see dynamic languages with performance-intensive parts written in C or C++, or static languages such as Java.
-- Daniel
