There will be a lot of movement on top languages, depending on the application type and environment, but particulary in web languages. Some big companies are using various of them, because of this movement, and because of the rise of new ones based on old known ones. In example, Java is used a lot and keeps evolving too fast: Java 6 was the kings for various years, then came Java 7, 3 years later Java 8 (2014), this year Java 9 and Java 10 is in development. HTML 5 + Javascript 5 (now 6) + CSS 3 (and 4 any time soon) is a must: They are avolving fast too, and Nodejs is growing at light speed. I think that Nodejs is a very interesting and power language (based on JS), because allows you Javascript on client and server side, it's very scalable and will be fantastic on many environments, including IoT.
All this came with a lot of complexities, because now yo don't have "one" language for programming, testing and debugging, but 2 or more, so development is more tedious, tricky and difficult, and there are many more variables for web development. Rick Strhal surely can talk a lot about it :) On the desktop side the movement is not that high, may be because almost everybody wants "web" apps, that at this time can interact like desktop apps with the bonus of conectivity and ease of deployment. I'm missing the VFP calm winds. Too many languages out there and new ones every time make some caos for my taste. 2016-07-31 7:32 GMT+02:00 Edward Leafe <[email protected]>: > On Jul 29, 2016, at 5:54 PM, Mike Copeland <[email protected]> wrote: > > > In the past a lot of discussion has focused on Python, and there's > always Ruby, etc., and I'm impressed with XOJO...what I've seen so far. Of > course Microsoft is still a player, but other than Visual Foxpro, what is > the current "most likely to succeed" development platform/language in this > group's opinion? > > It hasn't changed much over the last few years. Python is clearly the > leading language, while Java still trudges along. The only new thing would > be Go, which is getting a lot of traction thanks to Google. > > > -- Ed Leafe > > > > > > > > --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- > multipart/signed > text/plain (text body -- kept) > application/pgp-signature > --- > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/CAGQ_Ju=_8n0QMnnLnrqNX0+JkJLsOScQO=JtDgy=Lt=nra_...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
