They benefit from adoption of Hack but they don't suffer from abandoning it. Contrast this with Microsoft and C#. Microsoft would suffer if they abandoned C#.

They benefit from adoption of Hack but they don't suffer from abandoning it. Contrast this with Microsoft and C#. Microsoft would suffer if they abandoned C#. They would lose a huge swath of developer mind share. They would rattle confidence of the remaining developers. There would be huge costs to their clients who would be forced to switch to a new (possibly not-Microsoft) technology.