backed by a tooling company means that the language was designed with tooling in mind and that there are going to be quality tools for the language. It doesn't

backed by a tooling company means that the language was designed with tooling in mind and that there are going to be quality tools for the language. It doesn't mean there is only going to be one alternative. Intellij Idea as IDE is a great choice. Android developers were forced to move from Eclipse to Idea and I haven't seen any resistance to avoid it. I have heard iOS developers complaning about tooling around swift. So, I think it is a strong point.