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If commercial usage of the language by companies big and small around the world along with funding of the ecosystem is not an indication of mainstream usage, th
by yogthos 7y ago
If commercial usage of the language by companies big and small around the world along with funding of the ecosystem is not an indication of mainstream usage, then I guess we'll have to disagree on what constitutes mainstream.
- lispm 7y agoRight, a few users don't make something mainstream. Big companies have thousands of developers - even non IT companies - that someone inside some big company uses a programming language doesn't make it an indicator for widespread (most people use something -> mainstream) usage. Mainstream: large relative and absolute numbers of users. For example the Porsche Taycan (-> Microsoft) is not a mainstream car, even though Bill Gates has one and Porsche is an incredible profitable company. https://www.economist.com/business/2019/09/12/porsche-is-small-but-highly-lucrative https://www.economist.com/business/2019/09/12/porsche-is-sma...
- yogthos 7y agowell fair enough then