Is Haskell going to supplant Ruby as the Next Big Language in the next couple of years? I have a gut feeling it just might happen. Things I've noticed:

• I've randomly found two other developers wanting to learn Haskell in the past week.
  
• New mailing lists are being created at haskell.org, including web-devel@haskell.org.
• Smart people, like Joshua Schachter, are talking about Haskell.

I just get the feeling there's something rumbling around. I'm very interested to see what happens and what it takes to make a language popular.

Labels: haskell, languages, programming

(Note: I might write a second post later tonight, since this is a cop-out post, but I actually want to do this for my own memory.)

I've come up with two more ideas for my 12x30 project. Along with these goals I'll now be through May.

• Openomy (April). No, Openomy is not dead. Not even close. Unfortunately, we just don't have much time to work on it these days. But, I believe if I make it a 12x30 and try to work 1.5hrs/day or launch a feature once/week, we'll see some drastic improvements (also, stay tuned, as we'll be launching a HUGE new change shortly).
• Learn A New Programming Language (May). I'd like to spend some time learning a more "wacky" languages every once in a while, so I'll spend a month diving into one or more of these languages.

Labels: 12x30, openomy, programming