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Re:Transit – A format for conveying values between different... by sbochins on Tuesday July 22, 2014 @07:07PM (#8072091)
I'm not sure I agree with all your points. For programming languages hopefully Python and Ruby will not be going away anytime soon. Javascript mind share is also continually growing.

For databases, weren't there other reasons people got excited about NoSQL databases? Not having a schema was one aspect of it, but it mostly had to do with scaling. Now people realize SQL scales just fine for pretty much most of the use cases that were getting replaced with NoSQL. And also that most data(in webpages at least) is relational in nature.

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Re:Transit – A format for conveying values between different... by haberman on Tuesday July 22, 2014 @08:23PM (#8072296)
> For programming languages hopefully Python and Ruby will not be going away anytime soon.

Neither is C++. But languages being designed these days don't look like Python or Ruby, they look like Swift, Dart, and Go.

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Re:Transit – A format for conveying values between different... by swannodette on Tuesday July 22, 2014 @10:20PM (#8072618)
I'm not sure I would lump Dart in with those as its typing discipline is completely optional. Also Julia, Racket and Clojure are all relatively recent and very actively developed. I think dynamic and schema-less approaches have some very serious legs yet :)
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Re:Transit – A format for conveying values between different... by nmrm on Wednesday July 23, 2014 @03:52AM (#8073317)
I'm not sure I would describe Racket as recent.
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Re:Transit – A format for conveying values between different... by swannodette on Wednesday July 23, 2014 @11:16AM (#8074798)
Racket is not a single language as much as a family of languages quite a few which are quite recent.
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Re:Transit – A format for conveying values between different... by nmrm on Wednesday July 23, 2014 @12:56PM (#8075414)
okay, fair enough.
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Re:Transit – A format for conveying values between different... by madeofpalk on Tuesday July 22, 2014 @09:01PM (#8072397)
Hmm. Maybe because we don't need a new high-level language Python or Ruby, but there are opportunities for better low-level languages?
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Re:Transit – A format for conveying values between different... by breadbox on Tuesday July 22, 2014 @10:10PM (#8072593)
Agreed. The recent spate of compiled languages says more about C++ than anything else.
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