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by choppaface
2393 days ago
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It’s interesting to look at this celebratory narrative and the fact that Valhalla took over 5 years (!?). And contrast with the rise of go and AWS Lambda. And C++, where the polished parts of boost got added to the language behind some flags (so the old language was preserved). And the growth of C++ despite the complete absence of a competitive, platform agnostic packaging & distribution solution. Wait, why do we care about the JVM?? This whole article appears to address concerns that, while fundamental to programming, are also fundamentally irrelevant to shipping products. |
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Well, to be fair, it's more like there are two (or so) good cross platform ones at the moment, but there isn't one so popular to be de facto. And there isn't one that is standard.
Besides, the most popular packaging and distribution systems for native code might still be the popular Linux distros. Packaging and distributing precompiled binaries with native ABIs (not targeting interpreters or runtimes) is much more complicated. Folks have decided to value other things than portability of packages for now. That could change in the future.