Andrei is looking pretty fit these days. Being a research scientist at Facebook is good for your health it looks like.
The Next Big Programming Language You’ve Never Heard Of
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#12But can it compile to Javascript?
It's got an LLVM backend so yes. Probably not production ready.
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#13Previous discussion with 14 comments from 6 hours ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7998144
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#14D? It's been around for a fairly long time, and it doesn't really have much momentum. I'm not sure why it's "the next big programming language".
Right! momentum is the most technically relevant quality of merit. Lets have a wholesome and fulfilling discussion of that aspect in particular. If that fails, lets discuss semicolons, and braces and make this HN story very meaningful and informative. After all that is the kind of discussion I come here for. If an article is crappy lets make the discussion around it crappier still. Shudder at the thought that a discu…
But the title doesn't say "of merit" it just says "big."
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#15D? It's been around for a fairly long time, and it doesn't really have much momentum. I'm not sure why it's "the next big programming language".
Right! momentum is the most technically relevant quality of merit. Lets have a wholesome and fulfilling discussion of that aspect in particular. If that fails, lets discuss semicolons, and braces and make this HN story very meaningful and informative. After all that is the kind of discussion I come here for. If an article is crappy lets make the discussion around it crappier still. Shudder at the thought that a discu…
Unfortunately, technical merit doesn't make anything "the next big thing". High momentum for a prolonged period of time does.
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#16The phrase "C++ is an extremely fast language -- meaning software built with it runs at high speed" needs to be changed to "It's possible to build high speed software with C++".
I take any performance claims made by a particular language with a pretty big grain of salt (particularly those made vs Java/JVM) unless they're accompanied by some reasonably sophisticated benchmarks and source that actually show a performance difference -- not just one that low-level language enthusiasts presume exists.
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#17D? It's been around for a fairly long time, and it doesn't really have much momentum. I'm not sure why it's "the next big programming language".
Perhaps that's why wired presumes you've never heard of it?
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#18Whenever I see the story is from Wired I always check the comments to see if it's worth my time more often than not it isn't.
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#19The phrase "C++ is an extremely fast language -- meaning software built with it runs at high speed" needs to be changed to "It's possible to build high speed software with C++". I take any performance claims made by a particular language with a pretty big grain of salt (particularly those made vs Java/JVM) unless they're accompanied by some reasonably sophisticated benchmarks and source that actually show a performan…
Well, I think you could be a bit more specific than that and reasonably say something like "If speed is a high priority for you, then C++ is often a good choice." That's why PC games are generally written in C++.
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#20I think most programmers I know have heard of D. When I took at look at it years ago, I concluded that the main problem was that it tried to please everyone. There's simply 'too many' features without a core theme to drive programming.