Re:A Programming Language Underdog
by y4mi on Saturday September 22, 2018 @10:07AM
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> I wish the world would get behind a couple well thought out languages that cover most programming needs (functional, systems/bare metal, scripting) and stick with those.
uh, thats basically been the case since ... 20 years or so? I mean i dislike java and c like the plague, but they're nonetheless the defacto enterprise standards at the moment for performance critical work and ... everything else.
just look at the TIOBE Index [1] for example. Ill admit that this is a pretty skewed statistic, but its nonetheless pretty representative for the basic idea behind it.
There is, of course, lots of services / software in other languages -- and often with very good reasons (take erlang for example for layer < 4 routing), but thats basically because every other language was insufficient for the usecase they had. Or because they wanted to deliver the software today, and not next week (i'm looking at you, php)
as an aside: <5%% is still a staggering amount of code, so please don't feel marginalized everyone ;)
Re:A Programming Language Underdog
by jhasse on Saturday September 22, 2018 @11:53AM
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Only Java and C? What about C++, JavaScript, Objective C/Swift, Python, etc.? And there's also stuff like MATLAB and R, which are the defacto standard in their own areas ...
uh, thats basically been the case since ... 20 years or so? I mean i dislike java and c like the plague, but they're nonetheless the defacto enterprise standards at the moment for performance critical work and ... everything else.
just look at the TIOBE Index [1] for example. Ill admit that this is a pretty skewed statistic, but its nonetheless pretty representative for the basic idea behind it.
There is, of course, lots of services / software in other languages -- and often with very good reasons (take erlang for example for layer < 4 routing), but thats basically because every other language was insufficient for the usecase they had. Or because they wanted to deliver the software today, and not next week (i'm looking at you, php)
as an aside: <5%% is still a staggering amount of code, so please don't feel marginalized everyone ;)
[1] https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/