Talk by Herb Sutter: Bridge to NewThingia

[Dibyendu Majumdar]

On Thursday, 2 July 2020 at 10:21:19 UTC, Joseph Rushton Wakeling 
wrote:
> On Sunday, 28 June 2020 at 21:00:09 UTC, Dibyendu Majumdar 
> wrote:
>> To be honest the analysis doesn't quite stack up. Because 
>> compatibility is not the reason for the success of Go, or Rust.
>
> I think that's a misinterpretation of what was said.  
> Compatibility is not a reason for success -- but the _absence_ 
> of sufficient compatibility will always lead to failure.
>

So why was Java successful? It was not compatible with an 
existing language.
Neither Rust nor Go are compatible with C++.
Rust, D and Go are all compatible with C in some sense.

Basically Herb is claiming to succeed a language must be able to 
be a drop in replacement for C++ in a mix-match way. I think it 
is a fallacy.

There is no single recipe that will make a language successful.