When will Java go mainstream like Python?

[Paul Rubin]

"Alf P. Steinbach" <alfps at start.no> writes:
> So I think there's no really good solution: the price for simplicity
> in one dimension is some complexity in another dimension, 

You could look at the way Cyclone (http://cyclone.thelanguage.org) does
region inference, and maybe combine that with a tracing gc.  There are
some functional language compilers that also use region inference.