Let me take a gander. I would imagine for a language to be considered, it would have to rank fairly high in the Tiobe index (or most loved languages on Stack Overlfow) to make it somewhat worthwhile for RemObjects. Although there are some very cool technologies like BEAM - Erlang virtual machine which is much more ubiquitous than one may suspect .
New dynamic, functional languages like Elixir and Gleam have been developed for the BEAM. But this ecosystem may be straying too far away from REMObjects business model.
Getting back to the top languages on the Tiobe Index, it looks like RemObjects has quite a few already listed in the top 20 (eg. Java, Go, C#, VB, Swift, Delphi/Oxygene). I guess one could add C, C++ and Objective-C as un-managed languages to the mix. The rest of the Tiobe index is replete with scripting languages like Python, Javascript, PHP and Ruby. Groovy ranks at #20. On Stack Overflow’s index, Rust is the most loved language but that would be more of an un-managed language like C/C++. TypeScript comes in at #2. Kotlin ranks #4 ahead of Swift at #9. Dart which ranks at #7 may be a consideration since Google is slating to use it as one of its principle languages for its future OS (Fuschia). Good thing Kotlin is diversifying. Julia ranks at #6, and although described as a general purpose programming language, it appears to be geared for data science and is attempting to de-thrown the parallel high-performance computing champion, Fortran. This arena is probably not a strong consideration for RemObjects.
Most Loved languages on Stack Overflow
1 | Rust | 86.10% |
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2 | TypeScript | 67.10% |
3 | Python | 66.70% |
4 | Kotlin | 62.90% |
5 | Go | 62.30% |
6 | Julia | 62.20% |
7 | Dart | 62.10% |
8 | C# | 59.70% |
9 | Swift | 59.50% |
10 | JavaScript | 58.30% |
10 | JavaScript | 58.30% |
11 | SQL | 56.60% |
12 | Bash/Shell/PowerShell | 53.70% |
13 | HTML/CSS | 53.50% |
14 | Scala | 53.20% |
15 | Haskell | 51.70% |
16 | R | 44.50% |
17 | Java | 44.10% |
18 | C++ | 43.40% |
19 | Ruby | 42.90% |
20 | PHP | 37.30% |
I think Kotlin may be a strong contender as well for RemObjects future line up because of its growing popularity in various indices and it would sync up well with RemObjects existing frameworks.