Seems like a nice language - but to succeed a language needs a big sponsor behind it e.g. C# Microsoft; go, kotlin Google; swift apple
Flix Programming Language flix.dev/ Next-gen reliable, safe, concise, & functional-first. looks like Scala, but type system is based on Hindley-Milner. polymorphic effect system, 1st-class Datalog constraints, compiles to JVM bytecode, full tail call elimination
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Perl and c are old enough to predate this. C++ had Microsoft for a lot of time. Javascript had netscape when it was relvant - and today there's a push to Typescript (Microsoft again). Ruby is not that popular and Python might be the only real counter example :)
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Java, it had a hardware company with no real software business pushing it. Very different to the others.
But my actual answer is Scala, pretty popular, no big company.
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Scala (though I personally really like it) is my example for a language that loses traction because it doesn't have a company pushing it :)
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not to mention that they internally replaced spark scala with a c++ engine docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azu…
And if the company behind spark don't trust Scala - who should?
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Depends on how you define “success”. I would argue that Ruby is a very successful language. Or even Clojure (to take a less popular example): As long as it’s continuously maintained, has a loyal community, and a set of useful libraries, I don’t see what’s wrong
Jan 29, 2022 · 3:23 PM UTC
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