> Also Dart is a counterexample. Or Self at Microsystems. Or Dylan at Apple. Every sufficiently large and profitable technology company eventually sprouts com

> Also Dart is a counterexample. Or Self at Microsystems. Or Dylan at Apple. Every sufficiently large and profitable technology company eventually sprouts compiler projects. It's as if they hire from an academic pipeline where compilers are a capstone project. There are now thousands of artificial languages. The sample size for "languages that succeeded and originally came out of Google" may be tiny, but the effect size is pretty bloody spectacular. Considering that the null hypothesis for all programming languages is be swallowed up by a memoryless void, I'm prepared to wager heavily that without the Google halo, Golang would've been no more influential than Newsqueak, Alef or Limbo were.