Why Apple, Google, and FB Have Their Own Programming Languages

Posted by Soulskill on Friday December 5, 2014 @06:54AM from the wait-until-they-have-their-own-internets dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Scott Rosenberg, author of Dreaming in Code dissects Apple's Swift, Google's Go, and other new languages — why they were created, what makes them different, and what they bring (or not) to programmers. "In very specific ways, both Go and Swift exemplify and embody the essences of the companies that built them: the server farm vs. the personal device; the open Web vs. the App Store; a cross-platform world vs. a company town. Of all the divides that distinguish programming languages—compiled or interpreted? static vs. dynamic variable typing? memory-managed/garbage-collected or not?—these might be the ones that matter most today."

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The real conspiracy... by __aaclcg7560 · 2014-12-05 07:01 · Score: 1, Offtopic

New programming languages props up the publishing industry by producing dead-tree door-stoppers that detail the new programming language. I stopped buying dead-tree door-stoppers years ago, cleared off the bookshelves and get the ebook version.