Talk by Herb Sutter: Bridge to NewThingia

[aberba]

On Sunday, 28 June 2020 at 21:00:09 UTC, Dibyendu Majumdar wrote:
> 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

* Community
* Strong die hard advocate
* Tutorials, learning resources


Those are the stuff I personally think I can't contribute more.