On 2011-01-16, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Sun, 16 Jan 2011 09:47:35 +0000, Tim Harig wrote: > >> One of the things that gives me hope >> for Go is that it is backed by Google so I expect that it may gain some >> rather rapid adoption. It has made enough of a wake to grab one of >> Eweek's 18 top languages for 2011. > > If the author thinks that Go is a "tried and true" (his words, not mine) > language "where programmers can go to look for work", I think he's > fooling himself.
No I wouldn't say that it has reached market penetration yet; but, it has more momentum then any language I am familiar with. I wouldn't be at all surprised to see it becoming quite common in the next five years. How long has it taken Python to reach its present level of market penetration? And, I still don't see a huge amount of professional Python use outside of web developement. Go has only been public for less then a year. Personally, I think the time is ripe for a language that bridges the gap between ease of use dynamic languages with the performance and distribution capabilities of a full systems level language. This is after all the promise the VM based languages made but never really fulfilled. It is also high time for a fully concurrent language fully capable of taking advantage of multicore processors without having to deal with the inherent dangers of threading. There are several good choices available for both a even a few that fit both bills; but, few of them have the support of a company like Google that is capable of the push required to move the language into the mainstream. > When I design my new language, I will make sure I choose a name such that > any attempt to search for it on job sites will produce oodles and oodles > and oodles of false positives, all the better to ensure that simple- > minded "top language of ..." surveys will give a massively inflated job > count. I would agree that Go wasn't the best idea for a language name from the search perspective. One would have though a company like Google would have been cognizant of those limitations... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
