they want apocalypse, so they can sell safety

the syntax, it is HORRIBLE

they'll go nowhere with that

I'm not happy with the state of the syntax, but I'm pretty sure it'll take me farther than this attitude.

>>they are better, modern, more efficient and cheaper CPUs in 2019

Name one?

They're possibly thinking about something like the Amlogic S922X. A 12nm SoC with Quad A73 and Dual A53, its definitely more modern and more efficient, though "better" is pretty subjective. As implemented in the Odroid N2 [0], its not cheaper at $79 with 4GB RAM, compared to Raspi 4's $55 (or $63 and $45 for 2GB, respectively). Hard to say if they cut the board down to remove all the things Raspi doesnt support and scaled up to Raspi scale if they could match the price. If not, it'd likely be close.

[0] https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-n2-with-4gbyte-ram/

Non if you consider the need of developing open drivers for them

Modern SoCs cost more than $35.

problem isn't that stuff, it is how java is engineered, it was made for the 80's

gaming industry is huge, but you can't with java because autoboxing everywhere, no value type, and no specialized generics

same for serverless, you can't because you have to ship heavy runtime

same for machinelearning, you can't do math because lack of value type

etc etc etc

Java tried to fix all problems, but they forgot the essential stuff, performance and efficiency

problem is it evolves way to slow that alternatives already emerged and are used by a lot of people who were looking for alternatives

so yeah, evolving in an empty ocean

he's getting that much money because his project looks interesting, that is what most developpers want, so they are willing to take the risk

now other language designers need to learn from this project

keep your language simple, keep dependency list tiny, make clean syntax, focus on efficiency and small file size, and you win patrons

but people often then bloat their project, with uneeded features, that makes language harder to read, and harder for tooling to support it

edit:

i love Zig, i'm not using it, but i plan to once package manager is ready and vscode plugin with autocomplete and debugging is available

please make it happen, open bounties if you can't

This smells very much like a sockpuppet...