Re:Elm changed my mind about unpopular languages
by sparkie on Monday February 19, 2018 @04:34PM
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The Python paradox is interesting in 2018. At time he wrote this, Java was the go-to language to teach in university and Python was reserved for hobbyists. It seems that has almost completely flipped now, and everywhere wants to teach Python first. Evidently, there's an awful lot of no-so-smart python programmers available on top of the smart ones now. It looks just like Java looked in 2004.
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Re:Elm changed my mind about unpopular languages
by Pieman103021 on Monday February 19, 2018 @04:41PM
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I definitely disagree that java is looking like - or even starting to - python did in 2004, it still has a huge market share, even compared to python. Yes python is definitely more popular now, enough so that the python paradox doesn't even apply, but it will probably never apply to java, or at least not in the current computing paradigm.
Re:Elm changed my mind about unpopular languages
by mooreds on Monday February 19, 2018 @04:55PM
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Maybe I read GP wrong, but what I took it to mean was that the market/talent position of python in 2018 is similar to java in 2004, not that java in 2018 is similar in any way to "2004 python".
Elm, Haskell, Clojure, etc, seem like they fulfill the role of "2004 python" in 2018.
Re:Elm changed my mind about unpopular languages
by cies on Monday February 19, 2018 @07:51PM
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> Elm, Haskell, Clojure, etc, seem like they fulfill the role of "2004 python" in 2018.
And ReasonML, PureScript and Kotlin the role of 1995 Python?