Re: TechRepublic article about languages to avoid in 2018

[Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@...>]

2018-02-27 10:09 GMT+02:00 Pierre Chapuis <catwell@archlinux.us>:
> On Tue, Feb 27, 2018, at 01:32, Coda Highland wrote:
>> unlike Erlang and Dart, which were things with big hype and big
>> promise that ended up not getting traction, Lua is well-established
>> and certainly not going away
>
> I'm sorry but I can't let you say that either...
>
> Regarding Dart, Google has announced Dart 2 a few days ago [1], and is making it one of its main languages for client-side application development. I wouldn't bury it just yet.
>
> And Erlang... What? Erlang is very similar to Lua in that respect, it is well-established and not going away. There is still no alternative to BEAM for what it does. If anything I see the Erlang ecosystem growing because Elixir is going very strong... yet Codementor still put Elixir at rank 9 in their list of languages not to learn.
>
> In other words, Lua is not the only unexpected language on that list. :)

Ons should rather say TechRepublic is a blog to avoid in 2018 :-)