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Kafka? Airflow? Javascript? The list goes on.

• teddyh 6y ago
  The only one of those that I have heard of is Javascript, and that was initially implemented by Netscape, but the language was then taken over by the industry at large as Netscape’s market share dwindled. Javascript is also unusual in that it had a specific and restrictive design goal, and a very short initial development phase before the language was mostly frozen. This meant that not a lot of Netscape culture could be put into the language, partly because the language itself was small, but mostly, I think, because of the very fast initial development by a small team (a single person over a period of days, IIRC). So, yes, even though I don’t like Javascript as a programming language, I would not shy away from it merely because of its corporate roots.
  • nojito 6y ago
    You are just wrong and speaking like it's still the 90s or 2000s. I just mentioned 3 very popular and effectively best in class technologies that started at a corporation and now have robust open communities supporting them.
    • teddyh 6y ago
      Please name one thing I wrote which is wrong. I mean, I agreed with you about Javascript, and gave a lengthy explanation why, even though you gave no motivation. I have not heard of the other two, so obviously I can’t comment about them.