> Why Zimbu?
Suppose you want to write a new program, something like a text editor. What language would you write it in?
It has to be as fast as possible, so interpreted languages are out.
You don't want to micro manage memory, so C is out.
You don't want to require programmers to have a degree, so C++ is out.
You want fast startup and not depend on a big runtime, so Java is out.
It has to run on most systems, anything with a C compiler, so D is out.
You want to have fun making something new.
I actually found most of them to be pretty reasonable.
> It has to run on most systems, anything with a C compiler, so D is out.
Personally, this probably wouldn't be such a huge factor for me.
I actually think that something like Go would also be suitable for most of those other rules.
That said, the question eventually becomes about how often those actually are factors that might influence one's choice.
For example, in many cases the startup times won't be such a big deal (e.g. webapps with multiple instances), nor will runtime performance (e.g. Python scripts for shuffling some data around).
