I don't think Julia has gotten real backing from MIT as an institution, it just originated from some people who worked there. Julia is the only recent language

I don't think Julia has gotten real backing from MIT as an institution, it just originated from some people who worked there. Julia is the only recent language I can think about that is growing and thriving without a powerful institution backing it. While corporate backing certainly help, I think it's more important whether the language really addresses some pain point of existing languages. Compare Swift and Rust. It seems to me Apple pushed Swift harder than Mozilla pushed Rust, but Rust more precisely addressed the problems people had with C++.