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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 impac
by 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 agoC 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 agoIt'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?