slavah's comments

slavah | 4 years ago | on: Bringing the Framework Laptop to more of the world

Great laptop. My only wish they would hire professional support. It is none existing atm. And if you get their attention, expect to get FAQ article responce which you already read 10 times. Otherwise your best bet forums.

slavah | 14 years ago | on: Programming language innovation - Is it dying?

I think the problem is more about visibility, adoption and becoming industry usable language (community, framework, library, learning curve, etc.) then being groundbreaking. Language being too innovative and too different from mindset of developers in my opinion would create barriers for adoption. Take a look at functional reactive languages and value they offer for web or even to regular UI scenarios (http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2057). There are a lot of research and real world languages done, but adoption rate is really low. On another hand if you do hit a sweet spot by simplifying existing scenarios and piggybacking on some popular concepts (example of node.js library using JS and simplifying web developers workflow) you instantly get adoption and visibility.