Re: life ?
  By: Maurice Kinal to Rob Swindell on Sat Feb 29 2020 10:03 pm

 > Hallo Rob!
 >
 >  RS> I imagine there's some group(s) within Google that are schemeing
 >  RS> to switch from Java to Go/Haskell/Julia/whatever-new-language,
 >  RS> but sometimes the business justification for such efforts just
 >  RS> aren't there.
 >
 > Understood.  However for startups - or progressive oldtimers - who have
 > choices one would think they would choose a well supported compiler that has
 > a future rather than one that may have a glorious past without much of a
 > foreseeable future.

Not sure which compiler of those languages I mentioned hast the glorious past
without much of a foreseeable future. Java?

 >  RS> e.g. Microsoft still uses "good ole" C++ for their Office product
 >  RS> development rather than the C#/CRL/.NET stack they suggest
 >  RS> everyone else uses.
 >
 > No surprises there.  Anyhow c++ has a vibrant present as well as a
 > half-decent shot at a future so the above factoid has little prospects as it
 > pertains to java.  The embedded gurus can keep it ... along with the rest of
 > the abandonware coming from that direction.

It was just another example of how some large influential tech firms don't
always "eat their own dog food".

                                            digital man

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