It's good to hear that a lot of people are experimenting with functional languages like Haskell and Erlang, but I think we should step back a little and take a look at C++ and its development over the years.
As you probably know C++11 is already around and majority of
compilers already support it. What most people don't know is that C++14 is ready to kick some ass too! It introduces for the first time in C++'s history functions as first class objects and allows you to pass them around as function parameters!
I think this is really exciting and I also encourage as many people to take a look at this new and very promising developments of C++ language.
On the other hand, Apple's Swift looks promising too - functional elements, type inference, speed, good compiler and so on. Not to mention it's being used with tons of great frameworks Apple provides for iOS and OS X development. It sure doesn't hurt to take a look into it too.
All in all, it really is an exciting time for us developers. There are really tons of cool tools and languages that allow us to get things done at the speed never imagined before.
Now, we should also look back at the fundamentals and ask ourselves could we design, not only program? That's not the skill you can pickup in couple of days reading bunch of tutorials and forums about your next cool language. I think, learning how to think about particular problem and how to approach it is more important than barely know how to code the first solution that comes to your mind in the new ultra fancy language.
Think about it...
As you probably know C++11 is already around and majority of compilers already support it. What most people don't know is that C++14 is ready to kick some ass too! It introduces for the first time in C++'s history functions as first class objects and allows you to pass them around as function parameters! I think this is really exciting and I also encourage as many people to take a look at this new and very promising developments of C++ language.
On the other hand, Apple's Swift looks promising too - functional elements, type inference, speed, good compiler and so on. Not to mention it's being used with tons of great frameworks Apple provides for iOS and OS X development. It sure doesn't hurt to take a look into it too.
All in all, it really is an exciting time for us developers. There are really tons of cool tools and languages that allow us to get things done at the speed never imagined before.
Now, we should also look back at the fundamentals and ask ourselves could we design, not only program? That's not the skill you can pickup in couple of days reading bunch of tutorials and forums about your next cool language. I think, learning how to think about particular problem and how to approach it is more important than barely know how to code the first solution that comes to your mind in the new ultra fancy language. Think about it...