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NOBODY EVER GOT FIRED
FOR PICKING JAVA
EVALUATING
EMERGING PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
FOR BUSINESS-CRITICAL SYSTEMS
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THE PROBLEM:
SO MUCH TO BUILD,
SO MANY LANGUAGES
TO BUILD IT ALL IN
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THE OLD GUARD:
JAVA
PYTHON
PHP/ASP
RUBY
C/C++/OBJ-C/C#
PERL
VISUAL BASIC
HASKELL
OCAML/F#
...
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MO' LANGUAGES,
MO' PROBLEMS:
NEW LANGUAGES
ARE COMING OUT
FAST AND FURIOUS
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48 LANGUAGES
PRESENTED AT
@EMERGINGLANGS
SINCE 2010
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EVEN MORE PROBLEMATIC:
LANGUAGE EVANGELISTS
ARE AT YOUR DOOR
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SO HOW
DO WE
CHOOSE?
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CRAPPY SOLUTION #1:
MAKE A
TOTALLY ARBITRARY
SELECTION
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CRAPPY SOLUTION #2:
MAKE IT A
POPULARITY CONTEST
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POPULARITY CONTEST, EX 1
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POPULARITY CONTEST, EX 2
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CRAPPY SOLUTION #3:
DESIGN BY
HACKER NEWS
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CRAPPY SOLUTION #4:
CROWDSOURCE
YOUR DECISION
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CROWDSOURCING
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WHAT IF WE MADE AN
EVIDENCE-BASED
DECISION?
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BEWARE
SUBJECTIVE
CRITERIA,
AKA:
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SUBJECTIVE CRITERIA:
READABILITY
TERSENESS
PRODUCTIVITY
AGILITY
MINDSHARE
POLA/POLS
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PAPERS REFERENCING
DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS:
~3,810,000
PAPERS REFERENCING
LANGUAGE ERGONOMICS:
~7,090
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"[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
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POSITIVE SUBJECTIVE CRITERIA
UNIQUE TO EMERGING LANGUAGES:
DEVELOPER APPEAL
STRATEGIC NOVELTY
HOMESTEADING
MALLEABLE ROADMAP
ACCESSIBLE COMMUNITY
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OBJECTIVE
CRITERIA
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OBJECTIVE CRITERIA:
PERFORMANCE
LIBRARY BREADTH
AVAILABLE PRIMITIVES
STABILITY OF SYNTAX
SECURITY HISTORY
DEVELOPMENT CYCLE
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APPLY
OBJECTIVE CRITERIA
DIRECTLY TO
DECISION THEORY
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CAN WE MAKE
OBJECTIVE DECISIONS
ABOUT
EMERGING LANGUAGES?
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AT FIRST, NO.
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EXAMPLE:
GO VS RUST
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EMERGING LANGUAGE
ADOPTION
STRATEGIES
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STRATEGY #1:
ACKNOWLEDGE RISK,
HEDGE AGAINST IT
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STRATEGY #2:
MITIGATE RISK
THROUGH
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
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STRATEGY #3:
PLAY TO YOUR PICK'S
STRENGTHS,
USE ANOTHER LANGUAGE
WHERE IT'S WEAK
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FIN.
QUESTIONS?
THANKS FOR LISTENING!