While it's certainly a form of institutional backing it's very dissimilar to Google as CWI and INRIA are both research institutes. They would have their own ne

While it's certainly a form of institutional backing it's very dissimilar to Google as CWI and INRIA are both research institutes. They would have their own network effects within research and academia, but that doesn't necessarily translate to wider scale adoption. That's sort of why I threw in OCaml; largely it is still only successful within academia. Python on the other hand had similar beginnings, but has been wildly successful both in academia and in common use.