Re: TechRepublic article about languages to avoid in 2018

[Mauricio Tavares <raubvogel@...>]

TechRepublic does remind me of someone in linkedin who gets docs given
for free and then emails you, the unfortunate who fell for it once, a
"free document we are offering!  All you have to do is enter your
contact info! Easy!" message.

On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 12:04 PM, Guislain Duthieuw
<guislain.duthieuw@gmail.com> wrote:
> Concerning Dart, Google has announced Flutter, a crossplatform mobile
> framework for native mobile app that uses... Dart.
> oops TechRepublic ;-)
>
> On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 5:18 PM, Coda Highland <chighland@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 2:09 AM, Pierre Chapuis <catwell@archlinux.us>
>> wrote:
>> > 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.
>>
>> I stand by what I said: I'm not saying that Dart and Erlang are bad or
>> dead, but they both hit a whole ton of hype a couple years ago and now
>> they've settled down into a stable state where the people who are
>> using it are using it but they're not the next big thing that everyone
>> seems to be excited about and "and we're using Dart!" or "and we're
>> using Erlang!" aren't tag lines that will attract excited new
>> developers like it used to.
>>
>> That said, you're not wrong, either -- that means they're in the same
>> boat Lua is. They've matured, they've found their position, and
>> they're surviving based on their usefulness instead of on their hype.
>>
>> /s/ Adam
>>
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