Programming language development: the past 5 years (2011) (opens in new tab)

It's how Go was presenting itself in 2011, IIRC. Not so much anymore.

It is as much system level as Oberon or Mesa/Cedar, both with proofs on how to write a full graphic Workstation with them.

As for Go, it is fully bootstraped in itself, including the whole runtime.

There are already some bare bones examples at OS Dev

http://wiki.osdev.org/Go_Bare_Bones

And there are people writing bare metal runtimes for the STM32F4 and STM32L1-Discovery boards.

https://sites.google.com/site/embeddedgo/home

For me that is a system level programming language.

I think the meaning was software systems and services, not Operating Systems... though it's always bugged me as well.

FWIW, the first submitter of this post seems to be Jeremy Ashkenas, who was the creator of CoffeeScript:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3128166

Even if you're being half-facetious...while CoffeeScript seems to have fallen in favor with the onset of ES6, it's hard to overstate its influence in 2011...Rails, which was most definitely the hott framework du jour, decided to make CoffeeScript -- along with the much more ubiquitous jQuery and SASS -- part of its default stack: http://www.rubyinside.com/rails-3-1-adopts-coffeescript-jque...

It may be because in the past 5 years from today most of these languages have seized development. It is still interesting to see which of the "New Hotness" languages of 2011 are still around and strong. Like Clojure and Go

The site we're on is running on Arc.

Notice the mention of Dart and Rust as up-and-comers.

> Is CoffeeScript considered a programming language? :O

No, technically it's a type of vegetable.

In math ( * ) is a binary operation. ( * 2) returning 2 is confusing to everyone that hasn't gotten used to a non-standard way of thinking about * .