Factually, there have been more commits to the arch/arm tree than the arch/x86 tree in the last six months. It's true that Linaro, Samsung, and many other companies are interested in taking ARM forward as it's great for minimizing power consumption on embedded devices (among other things). I'm not going to speculate about whether x86 or ARM will "win the battle" or whether they will co-exist, but the fact of the matter is that x86 dominates everything from consumer laptops to web infrastructure. It's a very mature architecture, and VT-x is slowly phasing out pvops. The virt/kvm/arm tree is very recent (3 months old): ARM doesn't have virtualization extensions, so I don't know how this works yet. So, yeah: ARM definitely has a long and exciting future.
> C is single-handedly responsible for 99% of all security problems on the Internet.
Collecting evidence to back outrageous claims is left as an exercise to the reader.
> BS
I'm not interested in "transcendental superiority" arguments. CLOS doesn't have users, and hasn't influenced object systems in prevalent languages; period.
> WTF?
Factually, Java is a very popular language in industry, which requires code produced by different programmers to fit together reliably. I personally attribute it to the object system/ typesystem, although others might have a different view.
> I'm not going to speculate about whether x86 or ARM will "win the battle" or whether they will co-exist
I don't care about a 'battle'. Just most computers, probably a dozen, around me use ARM.
> Collecting evidence to back outrageous claims is left as an exercise to the reader.
That's a trivial task.
> I'm not interested in "transcendental superiority" arguments.
WTF?
> CLOS doesn't have users,
BS.
> and hasn't influenced object systems in prevalent languages; period.
True scotsman argument. Actually for that it is relatively unknown, it has influenced a lot languages and a lot of researchers. There are a ton of non-CLOS literature and systems, trying to adapt stuff like Mixins, MOP, Multiple Dispatch, Generic Functions, ...
That languages like Java doesn't has anything of that natively is not CLOS' fault. Java just recently was catching up to some kind of closures. Give the Java maintainers a few more decades. Java does not even have multiple inheritance.
CLOS' Multiple dispatch is also now present in unknown languages like Haskell, R, C#, Groovy, Clojure, Perl, Julia and a few others.
Factually, there have been more commits to the arch/arm tree than the arch/x86 tree in the last six months. It's true that Linaro, Samsung, and many other companies are interested in taking ARM forward as it's great for minimizing power consumption on embedded devices (among other things). I'm not going to speculate about whether x86 or ARM will "win the battle" or whether they will co-exist, but the fact of the matter is that x86 dominates everything from consumer laptops to web infrastructure. It's a very mature architecture, and VT-x is slowly phasing out pvops. The virt/kvm/arm tree is very recent (3 months old): ARM doesn't have virtualization extensions, so I don't know how this works yet. So, yeah: ARM definitely has a long and exciting future.
> C is single-handedly responsible for 99% of all security problems on the Internet.
Collecting evidence to back outrageous claims is left as an exercise to the reader.
> BS
I'm not interested in "transcendental superiority" arguments. CLOS doesn't have users, and hasn't influenced object systems in prevalent languages; period.
> WTF?
Factually, Java is a very popular language in industry, which requires code produced by different programmers to fit together reliably. I personally attribute it to the object system/ typesystem, although others might have a different view.