Maybe, but then look at Dart - a Google language whose real-world application so far has been the niche of Flutter app development. I suspect it's a bit more t

Maybe, but then look at Dart - a Google language whose real-world application so far has been the niche of Flutter app development. I suspect it's a bit more than the Google stamp of approval - the innate simplicity of the language is attractive, it has almost Python-like simplicity without the performance concerns, and it has a "one true way" approach to formatting that settles any bikeshedding arguments in dev teams. It's not my personal favourite language - the poor error handling discussed in this thread, the mess of the package management system (I mean, Python has a mess of a package management system, but that's more forgivable in a language from the 1990s, not the 2010s), the lack of decent standard library collections, etc. But I can see the appeal.