Comment Re:Google Wave (Score 1) 299
Google Wave was some very interesting technology but I think it was pointed in the wrong direction. It wasn't ever considered as a way for the Internet of Things to talk to each other in a reasonable way and everything Google did with it was around pushing it in front of people, not devices. There might have been a time where the terms of service didn't allow devices to communicate using it for message passing.
Language development these days seems to have stalled around a few specific areas which are separated by the family trees of the languages. There were plenty of languages from the past that excelled in one area or another that is often difficult or every inefficient with more modern architectures. Many of the 4th generation languages had some very cleaver ideas. Even new languages like go don't help with a major problem because there is no base type for money so programmers are left to their own devices and end up with floating point issues or just using cents or even worse problems because of the underlying hacks.