Talk:Tritium (programming language)

Notability
What is the claim to notability?

Surely a programming language doesn't justify an article on Wikipedia until it has established some kind of significance in the community, e.g. by being widely used or widely cited?

I get the strong impression that the sole purpose of this article is to create awareness of something that would otherwise be completely obscure, and as such, it deserves a speedy delete.

This is not in any way a comment on the quality or worthiness of the language described; it's just that writing it up in Wikipedia should not be part of the launch strategy.

Mhkay (talk) 09:24, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

Hi Michael, I work at Moovweb where this language was invented, although I didn't invent it. I understand your perspective (ps. thank you for Saxon and Saxon-CE and your open source contributions to the XSLT/XML community) but this isn't a "launch strategy". The language has been around in beta for awhile and was publicly released late last year; it's finally getting enough coverage now that I felt it met the notability criteria ("mentioned in sources with editorial control"). Although it's nowhere as popular as what you've done with XML/XSLT, it's currently being used to power a significant level of e-commerce, for example Macy's development team (among others) is using it to power their mobile website. The authorship of the language is also notable -- this is the third language from someone who's first two languages achieved significant popularity (HAML, Sass). We really believe we're building on similar ideas around transformation languages and pushing them in a novel way. Finally, even if a programming language (heck a natural language) never gains popularity, but the ideas are novel or innovative they shouldn't be lost to the dust bin of history.

Ianand (talk) 05:47, 18 August 2013 (UTC)