On sabato 6 dicembre 2014 04:17:25 CEST, Vlad wrote:
> Hi, Henrik
>
> I think that you nailed a lot of the problems still plaguing
> Python on the head, however OCaml and Modula are a bit obscure
> and lack the extensive libraries that Python brings to the
> table, moreover a lot of people know python, it is used
> extensively in other distros, and it is a relatively easy
> language to learn, I took a look at OCaml, and while it had some
> very neat features I really don't think that it is something
> that many people would like to learn or use.
> This is of course just a first impression based on a cursory
> look at it, I might be wrong, I am kind of curious about OCaml.
>
> We should also consider Go and Julia IMO.

IMHO +1 for Go, it depend only by libc6 and produce static binary (about
the KISS cause), it's designed to serve the admin layer (not like Rust that
it's closed to the low level of C)



>
> Oh, and Microsoft is planning to open source and port .NET to
> Linux, please everybody hold the 'M$ is Cancer' comments for a
> sec, C# is a pretty decent language for application development,
> IMO it blows Java out of the water and it might have its uses.

not in my name ;)
at a social level it's a trojan and after the injection acts like a cancer