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speaking of typescript and dart, the language i was really rooting for in that niche was haxe. wish it had gotten more mainstream.
Haxe is still alive! The devs are working on 5.0 as we speak! Its really calming that Haxe is not moving as fast as the JS/TS ecosystem. You upgrade once every 3-4 years. Everything just usually "works" We use Haxe for PHP and its really a secret hidden superpower, im amazed people dont know about / use. Its mostly marketing, i guess. But i wish more devs tried it as an alternative to PHP or TypeScript, as the langua…
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I belive asking the favorite LLM to generate an executable will be the future, just like high level languages drove Assembly development into a niche. Yes it isn't here today, just like it took several decades for optimizing compiler backends to do a very good job. In fact one of the reasons why Matt Goldbolt created Compiler Explorer was to have a way to settle arguments he was having in the games industry.
> LLM to generate an executable ... and the job of a programmer will be to explain, in as precise terms as possible, what they need the executable to do. (Reminds me of the idea of programming based on a natural language.)
We migrated from Asm to C. And C to C++, then to Java. And then Java to Python.
And now we write code in English.
I haven't written much code in many months.
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I'd suggest F#, Clojure, Elixir, Scala, and TS, if that counts.
Clojure could never really be a thing since it ignores the most important rule: fast startup. Because of this, and for no other reason, Clojure will always be an "also ran". It's not about competency of the people working on it. It's a solvable problem the community doesn't acknowledge exists, unless you press them on it, in which case they think "graal" and "babashka" is a valid response, and you're back to square 1…