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Which most recent (and how recent) were started by individuals in their spare time? Perl is one that comes to mind and it’s old.

• flohofwoe 2y ago
  Rust, Zig, Odin, Nim are probably the most popular. It's also not surprising IMHO, most software is created to scratch a particular itch of an individual. Also specifically for programming languages, LLVM made it possible for individuals to build their own pet language with relatively little effort but still get competitive performance and target platform coverage.
  • firesteelrain 2y ago
    Rust though didn’t gain traction until Mozilla adopted it. I guess we could say individuals always created programming languages but majority are sponsored and paid by orgs/companies.
    • flohofwoe 2y ago
      Before LLVM it was much harder for individuals to build competitive programming languages though (edited my original post with that afterthought, apologies)
      • firesteelrain 2y ago
        That is a true and its a good point. Maybe we will see a bunch of new languages because of that.