Talk by Herb Sutter: Bridge to NewThingia

[Dibyendu Majumdar]

On Saturday, 27 June 2020 at 15:48:33 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> How to answer "why will yours succeed, when X, Y, and Z have 
> failed?"
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIHfaH9Kffs
>
> Very insightful talk.

To be honest the analysis doesn't quite stack up. Because 
compatibility is not the reason for the success of Go, or Rust.

I would say the success of a language depends on many factors:

* Luck
* Timing - and a need to be filled
* Sufficient commercial usage
* Big name factor - Go authors tried a few times creating 
languages that did not succeed until they had Google backing.
* Language offers something sufficiently different solution than 
existing solutions
* Tooling
* Quality of implementation