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Which language you wish would really grow and reach mainstream adoption? (programming.dev)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Assume mainstream adoption as used by around 7% of all github projects

Personally, I'd like to see Nim get that growth.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Swift.

It's a wonderful language, it's general purpose, it's cross platform, and it's open source (Apache license). I wish it was a mainstream language outside the of the Apple universe.

What I love the most is it's so flexible. It's a full featured OOP language, a full featured Procedural language, a full featured Functional language, a full featured declarative language, and you can relatively easily make it work with anything else you can think of.

It also has the best concurrency system I've ever seen - and with high performance computing relying so much on parallel computing these days that's a must and often what I miss the most in other languages.

A lot of other languages do some things just as well as Swift, but Swift does everything really well.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Completely agree. Unfortunately Apple will need to start treating Swift on non-Apple platforms as a first class citizen for it to achieve any sort of wider popular use.

When Lattner left, it was a signal that they were unlikely to ever move in that direction. Since then, I'd say they've moved further away if anything. They certainly made a hell of mess introducing SwiftUI and Combine (though glad to say things have recovered significantly since then).