On my previous entry on the present and future of programming languages, I briefly covered on the reasons I think it is important to be looking at this problem now. I though I would expand the discussion.

The laws of physics that we know have stopped our ability to make chips significantly faster today, and rather hardware manufacturers now need to place more and more cores in one die. The result as software developers is that we are now faced with computers with multiple cores and multiple CPUs.…

I believe being a polyglot is nothing but an advantage, and that polyglots are normally the best programmers. As a matter of fact, I challenge myself to learn a new programming language every year. Last year it was Scala, this year I’ve started learning and writing some Erlang (and yes, there is a pattern here for functional programming languages).

One of the reasons I like learning programming languages is a drive to reach the Holly Programming Grail: I find most fascinating discovering which language is better suited for which task.…

If you have been following the media industry over the last years, you’ll have surely realized that traditional media is struggling. Even before the crisis, advertisers have started switching from offline to online, and now with the crisis we see a consolidation in a few ad agencies and a few brokers.

Many magazines and newspapers are in such position that if their debt does not get re-financed they will have to file for bankruptcy. Many music labels find themselves in a very similar position, or have already gone belly up.…