The Next Big Language

[Iain Buclaw]

== Quote from Jonathan M Davis (jmdavisProg at gmx.com)'s article
> On Monday 18 October 2010 01:34:51 dennis luehring wrote:
> > > My question is how many D like languages came up with an open source
> > > compiler? Why do people keep using that argument again and again?
> >
> > and second
> >
> > how many of these "other" languages got an community driven development
> > processes (aren't there always "these five keyplayers" around?)
> Java was big long before it was open-sourced, and C# is big in spite of the fact
> that its main compiler isn't open source and the one that is (Mono) is so far
> behind the main one that many people totally discount it. Sure, C and C++ have
> open source compilers, but most people that use them on Windows use Visual
> Studio (which obviously isn't open source).
> There _are_ definitely big languages out there with open source compilers, but
> many of them don't. So, personally, I really don't understand the whole open
> source complaint either. A compiler is a tool to get things done. Sure, it's
> nice if it's free, and having it be open source is that much better, but the
> real question is how well it does its job.

+1

I always regard that the role of software is to be seamless/invisible to the user.
If you don't realise it is there working away, then its doing its job properly.