Re: [Factor-talk] From Factor to Swift to ???

2014-06-06 Thread Hugo Schmitt
Actually Joe seems to have been working on Swift himself: https://twitter.com/jckarter Pretty cool stuff, congrats to him. On 5 June 2014 18:16, Dominikus Herzberg dominikus.herzb...@gmail.com wrote: I do not want to start a (religious) war on languages. You know, Scala is not designed by

[Factor-talk] From Factor to Swift to ???

2014-06-05 Thread Dominikus Herzberg
Off topic, but a call to Factor's creator and designer: There is one person working at Google capable to create a competitor to #Swift and a replacement for #Java: Slava Pestov, the creator of #Factor. I'm damned serious about that, Slava! Who else could be of help? There are some cool guys

Re: [Factor-talk] From Factor to Swift to ???

2014-06-05 Thread Samuel Tardieu
2014-06-05 11:27 GMT+02:00 Dominikus Herzberg dominikus.herzb...@gmail.com : There is one person working at Google capable to create a competitor to #Swift and a replacement for #Java Scala seems to fit those two goals. Why invent yet another new language? Sam