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- Kotlin (Jetbrains) - Chez Scheme (Cisco) - Erlang (Ericsson) - Rust (Mozilla) - Java (Sun Microsystems, Oracle) The above examples show languages that ou

by Seirdy 6y ago

- Kotlin (Jetbrains) - Chez Scheme (Cisco) - Erlang (Ericsson) - Rust (Mozilla) - Java (Sun Microsystems, Oracle) The above examples show languages that outgrew the companies that developed them. Typescript might follow a similar path in the future.

teddyh 6y ago
I don’t know about Kotlin. Scheme was already a thing before Chez Scheme, and Scheme in general has quite a lot of implementations, so Chez Scheme is probably mostly safe, merely because of that. Erlang I don’t know much about. Rust was created by the semi-large Mozilla Foundation, but Mozilla had mostly benevolent goals and designs for the language, so that one is probably OK. Java was initially made popular since people trusted Sun Microsystems, but then Sun was 1. destroyed by market forces, and 2. bought by Oracle. And Oracle keeps an even tighter iron-fisted grip around Java than ever, according to what I hear. So I wouldn’t touch Java with a 10 foot pole either.