The Next Big Language

[so]

Thank you,

First point is a good one and explains Go's popularity and it is hard not  
to agree that D fails on that one, no can do.
But is the second one applies to languages? I mean you can sell an OS with  
a killer application or a computer but a programming language?

The set of features a language have is the most important point imo, but  
the real pain is, how do you think you are going to explain this to  
programming community?

One thing i find very strange about programmer community, you would  
normally expect them to be above normal, expect them to be rational, but  
they are no better, most of them are just bunch of language warriors. We  
have some of them in this board too and Reddit is full of them, you can't  
reason with them.

On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 13:52:13 +0300, Paulo Pinto <pjmlp at progtools.org>  
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> because there are only two ways languages get maintstream:
>
> - lots of PR and money invested into them building a community
> - there is a "killer application/set of features" that builts a community
> around the language
>
> Usually closed source languages get maintream due to the first bullet  
> point
> and the
> languages that got mainstream due to the last point are all open source.
>
> For my understanding D fails point one, which bring us to the second  
> point,
> hence the
> complaing about the open source compiler.
>
> --
> Paulo
>
> "so" <so at so.do> wrote in message news:op.vkriu8m07dtt59 at so-pc...
>> Forgive my ignorance but whenever i read a D review on that reddit  
>> thing,
>> one always brings up this open source complier thing.
>>
>> 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?
>>
>> On Sun, 17 Oct 2010 18:18:26 +0300, Andrei Alexandrescu
>> <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Discusses a few languages including D:
>>> http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/dsdd6/the_next_big_language_2010_edition/
>>>
>>> Andrei
>>
>>
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