Re: Let's be honest: Euphoria is dying
- Posted by coconut Sep 14, 2014
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Money is not enough. Look at Go a Google created language, it as no big success. The fact is that there is so many languages that come by and fade away, lua is also fading. There is no point switching from one language to another if the one your using and well know does the job. A language to impose itself need to have obvious advantages. We are leaving in a world of multi-platforms and rapid deployement. Apple bring Swift and it is already popular, because it target very popular platforms, any freelance want to write for Apple phones and tablets. It is a great temptation to do the same when you know that a 3 days work like Angry Bird can make you almost instanly rich.
The science of compilers and programming languages is quite mature, there is not much to gain by inventing new ones unless it is to support a niche and this is what Swift is, although a very prosperous niche.
Will euphoria die? I don't know but it as always been marginal and at best will stay.
Jacques
