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Kind of like it would be misleading to say that most popular programming languages were not open source until recently.
by WoodenChair 6y ago
Kind of like it would be misleading to say that most popular programming languages were not open source until recently.
- lmm 6y agoI don't think it is. What does it mean for a language to be open-source, if not that there are one or more open-source implementations of that language which support most or all of the extant ecosystem for that language.
- WoodenChair 6y agoGo look at the TIOBE index ten years ago: https://www.geeks3d.com/20110121/tiobe-index-january-2011-python-wins-the-tiobe-programming-language-award-of-2010/ https://www.geeks3d.com/20110121/tiobe-index-january-2011-py... Top 5 languages were Java, C, C++, PHP, Python. All five of them were open source in mainstream implementations (Open JDK, GCC, GCC, PHP mainline, Python mainline).