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Nobody Ever Got Fired for Picking Java
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Alex Payne
May 14, 2013
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Nobody Ever Got Fired for Picking Java
Evaluating emerging programming languages for business-critical applications.
Alex Payne
May 14, 2013
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Transcript
NOBODY EVER GOT FIRED FOR PICKING JAVA EVALUATING EMERGING PROGRAMMING
LANGUAGES FOR BUSINESS-CRITICAL SYSTEMS
None
THE PROBLEM: SO MUCH TO BUILD, SO MANY LANGUAGES TO
BUILD IT ALL IN
THE OLD GUARD: JAVA PYTHON PHP/ASP RUBY C/C++/OBJ-C/C# PERL VISUAL
BASIC HASKELL OCAML/F# ...
MO' LANGUAGES, MO' PROBLEMS: NEW LANGUAGES ARE COMING OUT FAST
AND FURIOUS
48 LANGUAGES PRESENTED AT @EMERGINGLANGS SINCE 2010
EVEN MORE PROBLEMATIC: LANGUAGE EVANGELISTS ARE AT YOUR DOOR
SO HOW DO WE CHOOSE?
CRAPPY SOLUTION #1: MAKE A TOTALLY ARBITRARY SELECTION
CRAPPY SOLUTION #2: MAKE IT A POPULARITY CONTEST
POPULARITY CONTEST, EX 1
POPULARITY CONTEST, EX 2
CRAPPY SOLUTION #3: DESIGN BY HACKER NEWS
CRAPPY SOLUTION #4: CROWDSOURCE YOUR DECISION
CROWDSOURCING
WHAT IF WE MADE AN EVIDENCE-BASED DECISION?
BEWARE SUBJECTIVE CRITERIA, AKA:
SUBJECTIVE CRITERIA: READABILITY TERSENESS PRODUCTIVITY AGILITY MINDSHARE POLA/POLS ...
PAPERS REFERENCING DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS: ~3,810,000 PAPERS REFERENCING LANGUAGE ERGONOMICS: ~7,090
"[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
POSITIVE SUBJECTIVE CRITERIA UNIQUE TO EMERGING LANGUAGES: DEVELOPER APPEAL STRATEGIC
NOVELTY HOMESTEADING MALLEABLE ROADMAP ACCESSIBLE COMMUNITY
OBJECTIVE CRITERIA
OBJECTIVE CRITERIA: PERFORMANCE LIBRARY BREADTH AVAILABLE PRIMITIVES STABILITY OF SYNTAX
SECURITY HISTORY DEVELOPMENT CYCLE ...
APPLY OBJECTIVE CRITERIA DIRECTLY TO DECISION THEORY
CAN WE MAKE OBJECTIVE DECISIONS ABOUT EMERGING LANGUAGES?
AT FIRST, NO.
EXAMPLE: GO VS RUST
EMERGING LANGUAGE ADOPTION STRATEGIES
STRATEGY #1: ACKNOWLEDGE RISK, HEDGE AGAINST IT
STRATEGY #2: MITIGATE RISK THROUGH COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
STRATEGY #3: PLAY TO YOUR PICK'S STRENGTHS, USE ANOTHER LANGUAGE
WHERE IT'S WEAK
FIN. QUESTIONS? THANKS FOR LISTENING!