On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 5:58 PM, Jonas Wielicki <jo...@wielicki.name> wrote: > On 01.03.2015 03:43, Chris Angelico wrote: >> Imagine if all >> your Python code ran twice as fast (that's slightly better than the >> IronPython figure quoted!), but worked only on BSD Unix and Mac OS. Is >> that something that'll make a fledgling language succeed? > > I heard that Swift and Objective-C are quite popular these days. > > regards, > jwi
In other words, it requires major pushing from the platform vendor. It'd be impossible for some third-party to make a language that successful, I expect. And even *with* that kind of pushing, it's pretty chancy; there was a time (maybe times, I don't remember) when Microsoft tried hard to require "managed code" everywhere (aka ".NET runtime only"), and the push-back was so strong that they had to abandon the requirement. But somehow, people accept rules about phone apps that they wouldn't accept about desktop apps... crazy stuff. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
