C and C++ are both powerful languages but D brings some new things to the table. Then there's E, innovative yes, but why use E when we have F, or better, F#? Personally, I've used G for a couple years now but I am betting the future on the H language.<p>Some people are already skipping ahead to using K, but the guys I'm most scared by are those who only use R.
For those wondering, this is Mark Miller, you probably know him from JavaScript as he invented promises and wrote the prototype for the popular Q library before Kris made it more ergonomic.<p>Edit: this is also a nice read <a href="http://www.erights.org/talks/thesis/" rel="nofollow">http://www.erights.org/talks/thesis/</a><p>Some of his current work is about allowing safe execution in JavaScript, see: <a href="https://github.com/FUDCo/proposal-frozen-realms/" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/FUDCo/proposal-frozen-realms/</a> and <a href="http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~ataly/Papers/sp11.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~ataly/Papers/sp11.pdf</a>
For what it's worth, capnproto's RPC protocol is based on this. (<a href="https://capnproto.org/rpc.html" rel="nofollow">https://capnproto.org/rpc.html</a>)
Outside of its security model, E is an interesting language to study because of its actor/object system. Objects live in 'vats', an actor with a local stack and an event loop thread/process. Objects can sequentially/locally communicate with each other in the same vat, but have to communicate as actors between vats.<p>AmbientTalk took it a few steps further, with a concept of near and far references, future pipelining, reflection etc.<p><i>edit: Oops, E already had near/far references and promises. AmbientTalk does add more on the reflection/meta-programming side of things and features for mobile ad-hoc networks such as object discovery.</i>
Oh wow, I was just reading about this yesterday in Coders At Work[0]. Douglas Crockford[1] worked on this at a company that was trying to do some distributing computing work in the 90s-00s. They originally based it off the JVM but SUN had issues with that so they turned it more in to what he described as a scripting language "which is what we have today."<p>[0]: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Coders-Work-Reflections-Craft-Programming/dp/1430219483" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/Coders-Work-Reflections-Craft-Programm...</a>
[1]: <a href="http://javascript.crockford.com/" rel="nofollow">http://javascript.crockford.com/</a>