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> lacks [...] community backing People keep complaining about the small community. Please join and help. > lacks corporate [...] backing Is that a bug or a f

• Cyph0n 9y ago
  > People keep complaining about the small community. Please join and help. I will when I find the chance to start working with it! I'm currently using Scala. > Is that a bug or a feature? ... It seems like a bug to me. Yes, corporate backing has its downsides, but it's a great way to ensure that a language will have long-term support. Look at React and TypeScript, for example. If Facebook and Microsoft didn't push them down our throats at the start, do you think their use would end up being so widespread?
  • nimmer 9y ago
    > great way to ensure that a language will have long-term support If anything, community-driven projects can keep on track longer: Linux, Python, non-commercial distributions, while corporate-driven one can change direction or be dropped: Java, Visual Basic, MySQL, Solaris, a lot of Google projects. It's much more difficult to steer a whole community in wrong direction or convince most contributors to drop a project.