For its warts, Java was supported by a company with a lot of smart engineers who were working to provide a “batteries-included”, cross-platform language ecosyst

For its warts, Java was supported by a company with a lot of smart engineers who were working to provide a “batteries-included”, cross-platform language ecosystem and Sun was really invested in its success. I’d love to see some of these successor languages get the same kind of corporate sponsorship, but I don’t think it’s profitable.