Strategy for Traction

[Russel Winder]

On Sun, 2014-02-23 at 19:53 +0000, bearophile wrote:
> Russel Winder:
> 
> > Those in the Python side of the game disliked C and C++ co much 
> > they created abstractions, ending up with NumPy, Cython, 
> > ShedSkin,
> 
> Unfortunately ShedSkin is now essentially dead. And Julia could 
> replace Python in some usages, because of its performance.

ShedSkin certainly isn't keeping up with the programme and working with
Python 3 so I have never tried it.

Julia is a system I keep up with, it is splendid. And there is even now
a London Julia user group.

User group activity is likely a measure of involvement: Java and JVM
technology groups have no problem having meetings with attenders. Go
went from 20 → 120 attenders per month in a year. Python has activity.
Julia has a new user group.

I suspect D has no user group activity because it is a 10 year old
language very few people have heard about. It needs a marketing reboot
so as to be new and exciting and attract people to attend meetings.

-- 
Russel.
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