Re:An opinionated history of programming languages
by blandflakes on Saturday October 03, 2020 @06:28PM
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> For what Go wants to be (a modern C), it is not a bad design.
Sure and there's this weird thing where Go felt marketed as a C replacement and then Rust existed and it was all "just kidding we meant services" and boy do I think Go is poorly designed for services. It has a lot of characteristics that make it appealing - fast compiler and execution speed, low resource usage... but I don't see how pointers, a half-baked type system and a totally undesigned error system are good design for where Go is currently winning.
> But considering Ruby dying and Perl don't, is very weird.
Agreed for sure, I think Ruby and Perl probably have similar trajectories based on current trends in languages. Python's staying power IMO is really only due to the data science/ML trends and I frankly think it's a pretty poor language and ecosystem if you can get away with using anything else. I think Python WOULD be losing ground if not for its popularity in these very large niches.
Sure and there's this weird thing where Go felt marketed as a C replacement and then Rust existed and it was all "just kidding we meant services" and boy do I think Go is poorly designed for services. It has a lot of characteristics that make it appealing - fast compiler and execution speed, low resource usage... but I don't see how pointers, a half-baked type system and a totally undesigned error system are good design for where Go is currently winning.
> But considering Ruby dying and Perl don't, is very weird.
Agreed for sure, I think Ruby and Perl probably have similar trajectories based on current trends in languages. Python's staying power IMO is really only due to the data science/ML trends and I frankly think it's a pretty poor language and ecosystem if you can get away with using anything else. I think Python WOULD be losing ground if not for its popularity in these very large niches.