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Programming languages are not commissioned and designed by mega conglomerates for maximum likeability and to sell conference tickets, tshirts and merchandise.
by sph 3y ago
Programming languages are not commissioned and designed by mega conglomerates for maximum likeability and to sell conference tickets, tshirts and merchandise.
At least not yet.
- couchand 3y agoYou've precisely described Java! And Go!
- diggan 3y agoWe're getting there, some of the languages that at least been commissioned and designed by mega corporations, albeit for fuzzy reasons: Go (Google), Swift (Apple), Kotlin (JetBrains), TypeScript (Microsoft) and Dart (Google) One could of course argue that these were created to solve problem X or for reason Y instead of just raising the profile of the company who created it.