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And this is one very real reason to avoid languages owned by huge companies like Google's Go and Apple's Swift. They can and will do evil things, instead of sup
by dom96 8y ago
And this is one very real reason to avoid languages owned by huge companies like Google's Go and Apple's Swift. They can and will do evil things, instead of supporting them please consider supporting smaller languages which are often just as good or better as Swift/Go.
- saagarjha 8y agoSuch as? Many of the newer languages I’m seeing, notably Swift and Go, but also TypeScript, ReasonML, and Rust have their development backed by one corporation.
- niutech 8y agoSuch as Julia (https://julialang.org/ https://julialang.org/), which is general-purpose and open-source.
- gcb0 8y ago> julialang.org > no mention of "license" > "Julia is a NumFocus project" it is a non-profit corporation, but still a corporation. Whose life depend on donations from the owners of the other languages you compared julia against.
- Midnightas 8y agoC++.
- coolreader18 8y agodom96 was probably thinking of Nim[0], as they're one of the developers in the project. [0] https://nim-lang.org https://nim-lang.org
- nimmer 8y agoYes, as well as libraries, tools, applications that are not in the hands of one or few companies only. Plenty of technologies get hyped up by companies and later on bent out of shape or dropped.
- jordwalke 8y agoThis is definitely not true of ReasonML. ReasonML is just one part of a larger ecosystem that is pushed forward by a combination of academia and industry, and ReasonML is is very community focused/driven.