Nobody Ever Got Fired for Picking Java

Evaluating emerging programming languages for business-critical applications.

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1. NOBODY EVER GOT FIRED FOR PICKING JAVA EVALUATING EMERGING PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES FOR BUSINESS-CRITICAL SYSTEMS
3. THE PROBLEM: SO MUCH TO BUILD, SO MANY LANGUAGES TO BUILD IT ALL IN
4. THE OLD GUARD: JAVA PYTHON PHP/ASP RUBY C/C++/OBJ-C/C# PERL VISUAL BASIC HASKELL OCAML/F# ...
5. MO' LANGUAGES, MO' PROBLEMS: NEW LANGUAGES ARE COMING OUT FAST AND FURIOUS
6. 48 LANGUAGES PRESENTED AT @EMERGINGLANGS SINCE 2010
7. EVEN MORE PROBLEMATIC: LANGUAGE EVANGELISTS ARE AT YOUR DOOR
8. SO HOW DO WE CHOOSE?
9. CRAPPY SOLUTION #1: MAKE A TOTALLY ARBITRARY SELECTION
10. CRAPPY SOLUTION #2: MAKE IT A POPULARITY CONTEST
11. POPULARITY CONTEST, EX 1
12. POPULARITY CONTEST, EX 2
13. CRAPPY SOLUTION #3: DESIGN BY HACKER NEWS
14. CRAPPY SOLUTION #4: CROWDSOURCE YOUR DECISION
15. CROWDSOURCING
16. WHAT IF WE MADE AN EVIDENCE-BASED DECISION?
17. BEWARE SUBJECTIVE CRITERIA, AKA:
18. SUBJECTIVE CRITERIA: READABILITY TERSENESS PRODUCTIVITY AGILITY MINDSHARE POLA/POLS ...
19. PAPERS REFERENCING DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS: ~3,810,000 PAPERS REFERENCING LANGUAGE ERGONOMICS: ~7,090
20. "[P]reliminary results confirm that unsupported claims have been around since the inception of higher level programming in the 1950s. [T]his behavior is unacceptable for the health of the research community." – MARKSTRUM, 2010
21. POSITIVE SUBJECTIVE CRITERIA UNIQUE TO EMERGING LANGUAGES: DEVELOPER APPEAL STRATEGIC NOVELTY HOMESTEADING MALLEABLE ROADMAP ACCESSIBLE COMMUNITY
22. OBJECTIVE CRITERIA
23. OBJECTIVE CRITERIA: PERFORMANCE LIBRARY BREADTH AVAILABLE PRIMITIVES STABILITY OF SYNTAX SECURITY HISTORY DEVELOPMENT CYCLE ...
24. APPLY OBJECTIVE CRITERIA DIRECTLY TO DECISION THEORY
25. CAN WE MAKE OBJECTIVE DECISIONS ABOUT EMERGING LANGUAGES?
26. AT FIRST, NO.
27. EXAMPLE: GO VS RUST
28. EMERGING LANGUAGE ADOPTION STRATEGIES
29. STRATEGY #1: ACKNOWLEDGE RISK, HEDGE AGAINST IT
30. STRATEGY #2: MITIGATE RISK THROUGH COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
31. STRATEGY #3: PLAY TO YOUR PICK'S STRENGTHS, USE ANOTHER LANGUAGE WHERE IT'S WEAK
32. FIN. QUESTIONS? THANKS FOR LISTENING!