Re: how many Euphoria programmers?
- Posted by stachon Aug 18, 2010
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Why did Ruby, Java, Javascript, PHP and python become as popular as they did so quickly? Could Euphoria learn from this, or has the departure of Robert Craig meant that many observers felt that it lost its way?
It happens I have worked in all the languages you mentioned.
PHP is a mess, but it was freely avaiable way back when Euphoria was still commercial. This allowed the creation of the LAMP platform. It is good Eu is now free, but maybe it is too late...
Ruby is very elegant high-level language, allowing you to write applications rapidly with just a fraction of code lines you'd need in Euphoria. But is also slow and buggy.
Java is backed by big bussines. I think the language with virtual machine is a good trade off between being programmer friendly and good performance.
JavaScript - also bussines behind this. Unlike Eu has a public specification.
Python is the language that reminds me most of Euphoria. Except that it has OOP. Today no serious application development can be done without OOP.
I am sorry to do this ranting again. But without OOP Euphoria will still be just an educational/hobby language, not suitable for larger projects.
So my thoughts are : add OOP, or something new and cool (new data structures, remoting, functional programming?), or perhaps focus on smaller, specialized market (embedded devices programming, web services?)
Btw, what happened to Rob?
Martin
