http://code.google.com/p/noop/
Noop (pronounced noh-awp, like the machine instruction) is a new language that attempts to blend the best lessons of languages old and new, while syntactically encouraging industry best-practices and discouraging the worst offenses. Noop is initially targeted to run on the Java Virtual Machine.
What's the pros/cons with using this language?
When reading the linked page I was hoping to find the April, 1st date somewhere. Alas.
It doesn't look like an official Google project. It is just hosted at Google Code.
The project seems as if it is in a very early stage, so it is hard to tell whether or not the language will be any good.
Judging only by the tone of the writing on the project page and the proposed features, I would say that the target audience seems to be enterprise programmers. Whether or not the language will be a good enterprise language remains to be seen.
I don't think I will be learning it any time soon though. I usually stick to language on the "mainstream fringe", such as Haskell or F#. There are way too many half-baked languages out there to even bother. But that's just me.
From the news stories I've seen, Noop (pronouced noh-awp) is a very new programming language.
I checked out its code base (Hg) and you can see it is only a month old. From its site, its clear that this language is more in the brainstorming and trying stuff out stage rather than the developing towards a release date stage. And certainly not in the showing off what amazing things can be done stage.
I'd say were months early in evaluating this language. It may not materialize at all and if so, it may never be adopted within Google at all.
Interesting. Where's the language specification? I care a lot more about that than I do the code.
I like the ideas proposed to date a lot. The goal is to make a better Java, especially more immutable and more functional, but without introduction of much more new features like in Scala. A bit like a cleaned up Java.
The goals and ideas probably are grown out of the use of Java inside Google and the lack of development of the Java language.
However, development is very early and the development of a languages takes much time. I personally doubt that Noop will find much adaption.