<html><head></head><body><div>On Thu, 2015-08-06 at 05:08 -0700, Darrell Golliher wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div id="mb-reply">Maybe it’s never be more than a niche language — I can’t predict the future on that one. I hear good things about Rust and with Apple’s Swift being open sourced it has a shot a being generally useful too. Javascript has even gotten more interesting with the rise of the node, express and angular (aka. MEAN stack when you add mongoldb).</div>
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<div id="mb-reply">Anyway.. I digress. I was trying to plug Go. :-)</div>
<div id="mb-reply"></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The new wave of native languages is fascinating and quite useful. Sadly, each one has a niche environment at the moment. That might not be the case in 10 years, but today I can write code in C++ and compile it for anything and everything ranging from 8-bit MCUs to gigantic multicore multiprocessor 64-bit server systems (though practically speaking I don't go smaller than 32-bit ARM MCUs without a special reason). I don't see Go, Rust, or Swift being able to work in the MCU world like that anytime soon.</div><div><br></div><div>Then again, the last two projects I did treated the Linux kernel as the platform, and didn't use nearly anything else on top of it except for the C and C++ runtime libraries.</div><div><br></div><div>I look forward to the finalization of WebAssembly. Emscripten and asm.js are great, but I think that having a lower-level target for C and C++ compilers to bring those languages to the Web usefully and portably will increase the amount of code which uses those languages online, and that's not a bad thing. One need not have all the heavy libraries running in the browser; if you can use C++ and a BSD socket API to communicate with a WebSocket server, you can RPC anything lightly.</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>-- Mike</div></body></html>