[OT] compiler optimisations

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On Fri, 24 Apr 2015 14:41:11 +0000, bachmeier wrote:

> On Friday, 24 April 2015 at 07:04:10 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote:
>> the market for programming languages is a Winner Takes It All market.
> 
> /*Scratching my head*/
> 
> I don't see how anyone could possibly describe the current landscape as
> "winner takes it all". Scala, Clojure, D, Go, Haskell, C#, Objective C,
> Swift, Ceylon, Python, Ruby, PHP, Julia...these are just a few of the
> languages that I've watched develop in recent years.

yet how much of them are really used for something serious?

C and C++ -- thanks to libraries
PHP -- thanks to monkeys
C# -- thanks to m$
Obj-C -- thanks to apple
sometimes Ruby and nodejs with js (oh god, why?!).

that's all. you can find some niche projects on other languages, but that 
doesn't really matters.
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