> As you and know very well, this sort of widespread interest can become a self fullfilling phenomenon, because programmer attention creates programs. Some of these will be successful and that only fuels more participation in the phenomenon.
I hope this is what's happening with Rust. :)
I also thought this paragraph just afterwards had an interesting point:
> In the limit, they can make the web totally OS agnostic - but there will still be other things that motivate one platform versus another.
This looks like it happened; but did/do people actually credit Sun for this? On the client side it was Netscape that broke MS' monopoly with Internet Explorer, but on the server side Java was and is still very popular with the business folks, so... does Nathan have a point here?
> As you and know very well, this sort of widespread interest can become a self fullfilling phenomenon, because programmer attention creates programs. Some of these will be successful and that only fuels more participation in the phenomenon.
I hope this is what's happening with Rust. :)
I also thought this paragraph just afterwards had an interesting point:
> In the limit, they can make the web totally OS agnostic - but there will still be other things that motivate one platform versus another.
This looks like it happened; but did/do people actually credit Sun for this? On the client side it was Netscape that broke MS' monopoly with Internet Explorer, but on the server side Java was and is still very popular with the business folks, so... does Nathan have a point here?