Well, the two Google languages you mention there are philosophically _very_ different than Nimrod. Dart has always been specifically targeted as a Javascript al

Well, the two Google languages you mention there are philosophically _very_ different than Nimrod. Dart has always been specifically targeted as a Javascript alternative/successor, and Go has a strongly minimalist, "one way to do it" inherited from its Plan 9 heritage. Also, Google hasn't done very much to promote either Go or Dart. Neither of them are alternate languages for the Android platform, for instance. Chrome doesn't natively support Dart, even though the functionality exists (in Dartium). They're more like open-source projects originating in and supported by Google, as opposed to official Google products. The history of biological evolution is marked with periods of rapid diversification followed by mass extinctions and consolidation of remaining lineages. I think programming languages follow the same trend. We're in a period of diversification right now, and at some point in the future a handful of today's newcomer languages will be the hoary old relics that people are trying to get away from.