Re:First look at Clojure.core.typed
by klibertp on Thursday August 29, 2013 @02:16PM
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I don't know what specific language GP had in mind, but I would guess it's probably one of OCaml, F# or Scala. Or Rust - did Rust development start before 2010? Or one of the Lisps, where Clojure has a bit "worse" (or better, depending on who you ask:)) imperative story than Racket (the latter has mutable lists and hashes, although they are discouraged and not the default), but both are on the way to popularity (I still believe in this) and have mixed, imperative, generic, OO (Racket) and functional features. Of course Common Lisp, which is similarly a mix of paradigms, has a chance to make a great comeback too. There's also JavaScript, especially with improvements it's going to get in the future, but this damned thing already is 9th according to TIOBE[1].
Honestly, I wouldn't be very disappointed if it proved to be like this. All these languages are interesting and in 7 years time could become true "languages of the future". However, despite hoping so, I don't believe it will come true.
Most probably some languages will just move slightly higher with others moving a bit lower. Java will remain in the first 3, at the very least. Maybe Objective-C will swap places with C++ and Python or Ruby (or both) will come close to PHP. That's all I think will change, although it would be nice to see Rust instead of C++ for example or Clojure in place of (Visual) Basic.
Also, all the currently most popular languages are this young because there was a major paradigm shift from imperative to OO in the '80. Without similar shift happening sometime soon we will be stuck with Java not just to 2020, but to 2040 at least :)
Honestly, I wouldn't be very disappointed if it proved to be like this. All these languages are interesting and in 7 years time could become true "languages of the future". However, despite hoping so, I don't believe it will come true.
Most probably some languages will just move slightly higher with others moving a bit lower. Java will remain in the first 3, at the very least. Maybe Objective-C will swap places with C++ and Python or Ruby (or both) will come close to PHP. That's all I think will change, although it would be nice to see Rust instead of C++ for example or Clojure in place of (Visual) Basic.
Also, all the currently most popular languages are this young because there was a major paradigm shift from imperative to OO in the '80. Without similar shift happening sometime soon we will be stuck with Java not just to 2020, but to 2040 at least :)
[1] http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index....