91–100 of 265 posts
Earlier quoted context omitted.
A really crisp way to model concurrency. Most real world performance problems stem from the inability to model concurrency correctly. I also found it's faster to read the library code than the docs. A lot of thought has gone into making the language and library clean and easy to understand.
Doesn't that mean that the docs are lacking?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
How would communities around anything come to exist if everyone had the same attitude?
Look at how the communities around languages like Basic, Pascal, C, Lisp and Python have developed. They were, from the beginning, open with development, releasing early and often, and were explicit about readily accepting large contributions from outsiders (and really did so). The creators were always open to the possibility that they themselves might not be the eternal keepers of the language, which allowed competi…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
And now things just got interesting. I'll put my money on the availability of Go on Android being the catalyst for its future hockey stick growth.
I don't really see it - a language made for systems programming (read: non-application development) being used for developing Android apps? Or is there some other kind of Android development in mind, here?
Edit: Rob mentions it here at 06:50: http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Lang-NEXT/Lang-NEXT-2014/Pan...
Earlier quoted context omitted.
And now things just got interesting. I'll put my money on the availability of Go on Android being the catalyst for its future hockey stick growth.
For that really to happen, the Android team needs to give some love to alternative languages. From their Fireside talk I won't expect any change.
Why?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
How would communities around anything come to exist if everyone had the same attitude?
Look at how the communities around languages like Basic, Pascal, C, Lisp and Python have developed. They were, from the beginning, open with development, releasing early and often, and were explicit about readily accepting large contributions from outsiders (and really did so). The creators were always open to the possibility that they themselves might not be the eternal keepers of the language, which allowed competi…
Damn, another project giving up on Mercurial and switching to Git. :-/ A few more major ones and basically nobody is using Mercurial anymore. How sad.
Mercurial was more friendly to us Windows developers.
But with Microsoft embracing Git this isn't any longer the case.
Damn, another project giving up on Mercurial and switching to Git. :-/ A few more major ones and basically nobody is using Mercurial anymore. How sad.
I am you there. Mercurial was more friendly to us Windows developers. But with Microsoft embracing Git this isn't any longer the case.
(Maybe the way to advance the poor Gui user interaction experience is to write frontends for it?)
I wonder why they didn't move the main code repo to GitHub as well. https://go.googlesource.com/ is somewhat poor compared to GitHub.
Because we want a good code review system, and GitHub doesn't have that. More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8715529 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8605204
Earlier quoted context omitted.
For that really to happen, the Android team needs to give some love to alternative languages. From their Fireside talk I won't expect any change.
> From their Fireside talk I won't expect any change. Why?
Search for Google IO 2014 Android Fireside, video is available.