Re:Dr Dobbs - The Rise And Fall of Languages in 2010
by philipn on Sunday February 06, 2011 @07:37PM
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Python "jumped the shark" because more people have started adopting it?
Re:Dr Dobbs - The Rise And Fall of Languages in 2010
by chromatic on Sunday February 06, 2011 @09:40PM
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That puts things in perspective, doesn't it? There are buzzworthy languages and there are languages the rest of the world uses to get things done.
Re:Dr Dobbs - The Rise And Fall of Languages in 2010
by chipsy on Sunday February 06, 2011 @06:38PM
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I still use python for my utility scripts. There isn't a "next thing" for the niche yet AFAIK, all the hot activity seems to be in web-application languages(eg. Clojure, Scala, HaXe, Fantom) which don't do a lot to get down-and-dirty on the backend.
Re:Dr Dobbs - The Rise And Fall of Languages in 2010
by khafra on Monday February 07, 2011 @12:05PM
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Isn't server-side javascript the Next Big Thing for utility scripts? I still use python, because of the difficulties of getting new runtimes approved in $bigco, but I got the impression that's where things were going.
Just anecdotal, but I saw that statement in the article of "python surged" and had a WTF moment. Just yesterday I was putzing around with python and Fuse to make a silly filesystem, and found myself thinking "man python should really stop being my go-to language, it's making me seem so old-fashoned". Lately I have had a lot of those thoughts about python. It's my trusty language, and probably my first true love, but this last project and the article was my "python jumped the shark" moment.
So, the question now is:
I have a crapload of useful tools in python, and I don't want to rewrite them in other languages - has anyone made serious progress into calling into one runtime from another? Kind of like the JVM or .Net worlds, but universal?