On Thu, 2015-12-10 at 11:16 +0000, Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars- d wrote: > On Thursday, 10 December 2015 at 10:51:00 UTC, Russel Winder > wrote: > > Julia doesn'have that great a penetration in the market > > compared to Python, R, C++ and Fortran. > > Sure, in day-to-day work people use what they have until they > need to start over. How is the landscape going to unfold? What > languages would you consider for a from-scratch scientific > library? Same thing with Swift, what languages will you consider > for cross platform mobile development in a year or two?
Julia clearly has a strong and (relatively slowly) growing community. It will require the "killer app" effect to change it from being a fairly niche language given the state of the R, Python, C++, Fortran establishment. Clearly Go is biting into the C and Python usage, but I suspect mostly only in networking and networking-related things. > Interestingly C++'s position has been strengthened within Google > in the last few years, according to Chandler Carruth, so it does > not look like Go will driven towards replacing C++? But, it > probably has a solid position for smaller scale servers. I > personally hope Google will adopt Swift. And I think that would > be a better strategy for Google than pushing Go, Dart and so on. C++17 and C++20 are very likely to undermine any move by C++ folk to Rust or D I suspect. -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@winder.org.uk London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
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