Re:Near Future of Programming Languages [pdf]
by notacoward on Monday October 30, 2017 @08:07AM
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> Interprocess communication could use language support.
+100
There have been a few attempts in this direction, but they have mostly been couched in the form of a whole new language that also embodies at least a half dozen other novel (i.e. unfamiliar) ideas as well. Contra the OP, I think this is an area where incrementalism does work. Extending a language people already know with a few constructs for IPC, much like fork/join or async/await have done for concurrency, is much more appealing. I've been thinking about this for a few years now. Maybe I should write some of that down and let people pick at it.
+100
There have been a few attempts in this direction, but they have mostly been couched in the form of a whole new language that also embodies at least a half dozen other novel (i.e. unfamiliar) ideas as well. Contra the OP, I think this is an area where incrementalism does work. Extending a language people already know with a few constructs for IPC, much like fork/join or async/await have done for concurrency, is much more appealing. I've been thinking about this for a few years now. Maybe I should write some of that down and let people pick at it.