The Next Big Language

[bearophile]

retard:

> http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1803815

It's funny that the Python version of his code from the artificial intelligence book was completed years before the lisp version :-)
(Maybe because he has privileged the Python version because that was better for his students, but I think he has finished the Python version before also because Python is more productive than CLisp.)

Today Firefox is written about half in JavaScript (maybe 1.5 million lines?) and about half in a language that's mostly but not exactly C++, because it contains some "proprietary" type system extensions written in JavaScript (that add things like the "override" keyword of D) with Treehydra/Dehydra.

What language will be used to write a hypothetical new browser 6 years from now?

Some possibilities:
- The same JS + almost-C++
- D V.3  :-)
- Rust (http://github.com/graydon/rust/wiki/project-faq   http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4009 )
- <your language here>

Bye,
bearophile