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Is that even a feasible strategy for languages? I mean I get it for APIs... but we are talking about a language.

• pansa2 6y ago
  Visual J++? > Some observers have remarked that this incompatibility appears to have been a deliberate aim of Microsoft's, in an attempt to at least slow the advance of Sun's Java technology. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_J%2B%2B https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_J%2B%2B
  • ppseafield 6y ago
    But Microsoft got sued and lost hard on that one. They created C# and .Net as competition, but they hardly extinguished Java.
  • santoshalper 6y ago
    That failed spectacularly.
• doof_warrior 6y ago
  Of course. The more they break Python compatibility, the more reasons new projects have to use the nearest competitor.. which is Go.
  • enjeyw 6y ago
    I would have thought the nearest competitor to Python was Ruby, JS or Julia, depending on the application.