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On Tue, 2015-07-07 at 13:42 -0400, Dave McGuire (mcguire AT neurotica DOT com)
[via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
>   This sets off some alarm bells for me.  I'm a professional
> developer;
> I write code every day and I like to stay on top of new research, and
> I've never even heard of most of the languages you mentioned here.
> I've
> heard of Go, and Python, Ruby, and Java, of course, but Nim?  Crystal?
> Rust?

Rust is really popular today -- it is pushed by mozilla foundation. I
know it since some years, recently version 1.0 appeared. It it really a
promising language, has some similarity to C++ and Swift. I discovered
Nim in early 2014 following the discussion about Rust, and Crystal early
this year. Julia should be familiar to people doing Mathlab like stuff.

Of course you don't have to know them.

But none of them is a pet language, and they are not difficult and
academic like Haskell.

For commercial use we have to be carefully of course -- it is VERY
difficult to get a job for these, and it is difficult to find employies
(not that hard really, smart people will learn that languages fast.)

But for FOSS -- development should be some fun. Is C fun? And do you
like coding something in C, which you can do in 1/3 of the time with 1/3
code size, same speed, less bugs, in a better language?