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Name a popular language without corporate backing. C was corporate, AT&T. C++ was corporate, AT&T. Java was corporate, Sun. Maybe Perl wasn't corporate. Had
by hgsgm 4y ago
Name a popular language without corporate backing.
C was corporate, AT&T.
C++ was corporate, AT&T.
Java was corporate, Sun.
Maybe Perl wasn't corporate. Had a great run but faded.
Python? Maybe, but Guido van Rossum worked at Google and Dropbox for many years.
Ruby? Is popular because Rails, corporate.
JavaScript? Mozilla.
- goodpoint 4y agoVery much Python.
- robryan 4y agoPHP? You could argue Facebook but they mostly went and built their own thing that at best was inspiration of later PHP versions. As far as I know currently the only real paid full time contributors are from the relatively newly formed PHP foundation.
- stonemetal12 4y agoLisp, and OCaml are about as close as I can get. I would argue Haskell (several of GHC's core team worked at MS though). I would also argue Python was popular before Guido worked at Google. Those 4 all came out of academia though so they had backing just not corporate backing.
- pjmlp 4y agoOCaml - INRIA and Jane Street, Facebook, Microsoft research Lisp - IBM, Xerox, MIT, Apple Python - CWI, NIST, CNRI, afterwards Guido joined Google in 2000