Re:JuliaLang: The Ingredients for a Composable Programming L...
by coldtea on Monday February 10, 2020 @03:34PM
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>Sure, some do, but past adoption is not a guarantee of future adoption.
Not a guarantee but still the best predictor.
>20 years in the future is a long time. Just look at Flash.
Flash had a lot of things against it. Proprietary (aside from niche implementations nobody really cared about or used), single vendor, not owing its platform (browser vendors owned it), and not really that useful (aside from casual online games its main other use was small animations and intro pages).
And even then, it also took the combined effort of 3 browser vendors to kill it, and its public ousting from its mobile platform from the biggest company on Earth...
Not a guarantee but still the best predictor.
>20 years in the future is a long time. Just look at Flash.
Flash had a lot of things against it. Proprietary (aside from niche implementations nobody really cared about or used), single vendor, not owing its platform (browser vendors owned it), and not really that useful (aside from casual online games its main other use was small animations and intro pages).
And even then, it also took the combined effort of 3 browser vendors to kill it, and its public ousting from its mobile platform from the biggest company on Earth...