Should Julia be a systems language?

[KZiemian]

@kodintent

I assert that there isnt enough systems programmers, and this is holding back the world - because learning the C way turns most people away. This also applies to Rust. i think that because of the C way, we still have the outdated limited duopoly of Unix and windows. I think its a bottleneck for human technology. Do you think its an issue?

I personally think that problems are elsewhere. To use your terminology, we learn how to make languages less C-like and more normal person friendly (Python, Ruby, Julia, etc.), with its pluses and minuses. I don’t seen anyone that show how to make OS less OS-like and more normal programmer-friendly.

Also with OS world inertia factor is tremendous. People don’t want to spend the time learning theory of complexity, they just want they Word-like program to work and generate text they want to generate. And porting old software to new OS can be an nightmare, while writing new from the bottom up cost so much money.