Re:The Next Big Language
by gtani on Wednesday January 26, 2011 @05:48PM
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Nobody talked about F# here but it's clearly the CLR Next Language, and reasonably f&(*ing awesome; i.e. combines the Next Languageness of clojure, jruby, and scala from the JVM world. Invitably, people will raise the same "broad and deep syntax" complaints they level against scala
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Clojure much bigger then Scala and F#.
http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=F%23%2Cclojure%2Cscala&...
Holy shit,according to your chart it is even bigger than C and Java! How did this happen without anybody noticing?
http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=F%23,clojure,scala,+C,+Jav...
But maybe this is just a result of comparing relative growth rates of job postings. If you take the time to a look at the percentage of matching job positions, then Scala is pretty dominant (compared to Clojure and F#) :D
For sure clojure's a nice language with a lot of great lib creators , and the community will continue to grow strongly
The (+), (+'), "=" and "==" thing has started to bother peeps
http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/browse_frm/thread/59a...
http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/browse_frm/thread/506...
I've looked at it and thought it looked like a very clean and (for a functional language) quite readable. But the ties to MS's VM dooms it IMO. If they made it cross platform (JVM and / or native compilation) and put it in third party hands, then it might stand a chance.
BUT, I can't see Joe Public programmer adopting a functional language, even one as nice as F#