> What's the catch? It doesn't have big sponsors. Java had Sun and Google. Python, Kotlyn and Go have Google. C had AT&T. Basic and C# had Microsoft. Objectiv

> What's the catch? It doesn't have big sponsors. Java had Sun and Google. Python, Kotlyn and Go have Google. C had AT&T. Basic and C# had Microsoft. Objective-C and Swift had Apple. FORTRAN and Cobol had IBM. Javascript and Rust had Mozilla, ... Lua has a lot of small sponsors but no big one. Very few languages succeed just on their merits, without big sponsors.