Conspiracy Theory #1

[Daniel de Kok]

On 2009-11-19 22:10:57 +0100, retard <re at tard.com.invalid> 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