<story><title>Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions? (2010)</title><url>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1025681</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mminer237</author><text>I mean, JavaScript and Python have definitely become much more popular for many more things than they were in 2010.&lt;p&gt;I doubt Swift replaced much besides other compiled languages, and Kotlin just compiles to Java anyway. Dart&amp;#x27;s VM idea was dropped so its small usage is largely compiling to JS still.&lt;p&gt;I would say that the overall idea of performance being traded for programmer time is definitely happening despite the emergence of Rust.</text></item><item><author>TulliusCicero</author><text>&amp;gt; - As Moore&amp;#x27;s Law marches on, dynamic languages that are even slower than Ruby are likely to catch on. They may be to Ruby what Ruby is to Java, trading even more programmer time for CPU time.&lt;p&gt;Interesting how plausible this one is, yet turned out to be terribly wrong: the newer hyped languages that got some uptake were largely compiled ones like Swift, Rust, Kotlin, and Dart.</text></item><item><author>haunter</author><text>IsaacL nailed it the best&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=1027093&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=1027093&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;And surprisingly the WoW one is the most off :D</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>heavyset_go</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;Dart&amp;#x27;s VM idea was dropped so its small usage is largely compiling to JS still.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Are you sure about this? I was under the impression that today&amp;#x27;s Flutter development is highly dependent on the niceties the Dart VM provides, and newer Dart releases improved upon them.</text></comment>
<story><title>Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions? (2010)</title><url>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1025681</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mminer237</author><text>I mean, JavaScript and Python have definitely become much more popular for many more things than they were in 2010.&lt;p&gt;I doubt Swift replaced much besides other compiled languages, and Kotlin just compiles to Java anyway. Dart&amp;#x27;s VM idea was dropped so its small usage is largely compiling to JS still.&lt;p&gt;I would say that the overall idea of performance being traded for programmer time is definitely happening despite the emergence of Rust.</text></item><item><author>TulliusCicero</author><text>&amp;gt; - As Moore&amp;#x27;s Law marches on, dynamic languages that are even slower than Ruby are likely to catch on. They may be to Ruby what Ruby is to Java, trading even more programmer time for CPU time.&lt;p&gt;Interesting how plausible this one is, yet turned out to be terribly wrong: the newer hyped languages that got some uptake were largely compiled ones like Swift, Rust, Kotlin, and Dart.</text></item><item><author>haunter</author><text>IsaacL nailed it the best&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=1027093&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=1027093&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;And surprisingly the WoW one is the most off :D</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CoolGuySteve</author><text>In terms of language design, it seems like swift and julia are the most forward looking.&lt;p&gt;I personally don&amp;#x27;t think swift will ever escape the Mac ecosystem, just like Objective-C never did, but something with the same DNA will.&lt;p&gt;In the same way that Objective-C and Ruby both implement the philosophy of Smalltalk, I think that philosophy has yet to be fleshed out in a simple syntax that is natively jit&amp;#x27;ed&amp;#x2F;compiled.&lt;p&gt;The same goes for julia as an answer to R&amp;#x2F;pandas.</text></comment>