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by verdax_1 3465 days ago
It seems that a few years ago several big name tech companies found themselves at the limit of what they could do with the c#/java style languages. But they weren't willing to go back to c/c++. Facebook started experimenting with D, apple created swift, google created go, Mozilla created rust, Microsoft had a rumored system language that never seemed to materialise, and even c++ is trying to get away from itself.

It is sort of looking like the industry as a whole is starting to see if there isn't a better way to do things and I think we will see how things shake out in the next five years or so.

2 comments

I think this is a nice development :)

When I was doing my CS degree it was Java all the way.

I mean, today you can start a Haskell or OCaml project without people laughing at you.

I find your description to be the best one in the thread. It's also reflecting my exact motivation in dabbling with Golang.

Thank you.