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Imagine if some company were to make a completely new language just for an IDE.

• signal11 9y ago
  Is that a reference to JetBrains and Kotlin? :-)
  • sjwright 9y ago
    Or emacs. :-)
• BuckRogers 9y ago
  Kotlin and C# are two examples that fit the bill. If that's what you're looking for.
• rafialhamd 9y ago
  Let's imagine some companies (like Sun Microsystems) making wonderful language (like Java), and provide NO IDEs. We really had tough time during the initial years of Java - just with Borland JBuilder and some other primitive IDEs - until we could get wonderful IDEs like Eclipse followed by IntelliJ-IDEA. It's widely understood that you're referring to JetBrains' Kotlin. In such case, really industry-famous-IDE support for a 'new language', is some sort of a gift! Besides, why would a company want to invest in R&D to create a language and just give it for FREE, without any tangible business benefits. Remember, Sun did so... giving away Java for free. Eventually - under stress - they themselves were sold (and bought by Oracle).