Paraphrasing the point at the end, there is no company that has the financial incentives to promote it. The companies that do have financial interests in CL ar

Paraphrasing the point at the end, there is no company that has the financial incentives to promote it. The companies that do have financial interests in CL are ironically not incentivized to promote the free ecosystem around it. For the same reason that commercial C compilers are not really a thing anymore. This is, of course, a simplified view of things. For one, I think Intel still pushes a compiler some. That said, I think it is valid enough, in that Intel isn't pushing the compiler for the sake of the language it compiles, but to push some optimizations that they excel at. There is a question of how explanatory this is. I think it is fairly accurate to say that the marketing and general outreach for many of the successful languages today helped build on their popularity to the point that we know them today. It does not explain the seed of any success, though.