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Ask HN: Can commercial backed language can become dominant?
Seeing news such as this:
https://kotlinlang.org/docs/js-overview.html
Got me wondered.
We have gone long way since ActiveX,
Flash and closed web standards.
Can a commercially backed language (swift, Kotlin) can become dominant again?
- andsbf 5y agoMaybe Typescript?
- rmk 5y agoThe Go programming language is pretty much backed by Google. It really did not have a life outside of google AFAIK, when it burst onto the scene. It's now become the de-facto systems programming language. C is pretty much not used at the majority of places that need a lower-level statically typed, compiled language that needs no installed runtime; Go is now filling that use-case in a large majority of situations.
- nickmyersdt 5y agoJava was created by Sun Microsystems. SQL was created by IBM. C# was created by Microsoft. I don't know if your question was intended to mean "commercially successful" or if by commercially-backed you may have meant "closed source".