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"Pleasing to corporate sponsors" isn't what comes to mind when I think about great programming languages.

• mwcampbell 2y ago
  But it probably is a prerequisite for any project achieving its mission on a large scale. I'd rather have a programming language that makes a big positive impact in the security, reliability, and efficiency of software that lots of people use, than one that's aesthetically pleasing but not widely used.
  • josephg 2y ago
    C and C++ were never sponsored by large companies, and they did just fine. Zig is the same, today. (It has some small sponsors, but nothing like the corporate support of rust.)
    • jasode 2y ago
      >C and C++ were never sponsored by large companies, I don't know what you had in mind for "sponsored" but others would disagree and say both C and C++ were "sponsored by AT&T Bell Labs" because the people who created them (Dennis Ritchie, Bjarne Stroustrup) were employees of AT&T. Analogous to Rob Pike, et al. of Go Language being employed/sponsored at Google.
  • simon_o 2y ago
    It's not an either or. We have hundreds of languages made to please the corporate overlords. Can't we just have one language that's actually nice to use?