Frank Nicholas :
> If you haven’t seen [Grumpy], you might be interested. Not sure of the
> quality (experimental?)
>
> Google boosts Python by turning it into Go:
Yes, Gary turned me on to this earlier in the week. Grumpy is extremely
interesting, as a path forward for reposurgeon if not fo
>
>>> 3. Move the codebase to Go or Rust?
>>
>> While I understand what kind of problem you're trying to solve, at the
>> moment I see neither of those two languages survive for long if their
>> current parent projects change course (again).
>
> I'm not worried about that for Go, because Google
Sanjeev Gupta :
> Would you consider Julia ?
Alas, a perfect example of a language excluded from present consideration
because the developer and userbase is below the threshold that says
long-term sustainability.
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On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 9:32 PM, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> ractically speaking, I don't have time to become fluent in half a dozen
> candidate languages. I can probably budget time for one more beyond Go
> and Rust; Erlang actually seems like a strong contender there.
>
Would you consider Julia ?
Mark: Heads up! Serious discussion of language migration follows.
Achim Gratz :
> Eric S. Raymond writes:
> > 1. Performance and algorithm tuning - we need to take a serious swing
> > at Gary's slow-convergence problem, in particular.
>
> This objective needs to be defined more properly.
Agreed.