OT: 'conduct unbecoming of a hacker'
Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Feb 11 08:53:36 PST 2016
On Thursday, 11 February 2016 at 16:39:14 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> I wouldn't call Swift specialized, maybe only because it only
> runs on OS X, iOS and linux right now. So Linus would predict
> that Go and Rust may do well now because they're specialized,
> but will be hit hard if their niche collapses and they don't
> become more general-purpose before then (which I don't think
> they can do). You seem to think that's not a real concern,
> that the growth from specialization is worth it. Let's see
> who's right. :)
I don't think there is any such thing as general purpose
programming languages. They all get sucked into a niche.
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