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I'm generally in agreement, but it's hard to say what languages will be considered "company-specific" in the future. Go back in time 35 years and C could have
by bodyfour 12y ago
I'm generally in agreement, but it's hard to say what languages will be considered "company-specific" in the future.
Go back in time 35 years and C could have been called that "AT&T specific language" Or the opposite: Objective C looked like a hopeful contender to be a widely-used language but it just never caught much traction outside the NeXT/Apple (and NeXT ended up buying the developer) and today it's almost completely associated with a single company's ecosystem.
Maybe in 4 years we'll be talking about the new features coming in "ISO Go19" and complaining that VisualGo still doesn't support all of Go18 yet. Who knows?
- teddyh 12y agoTrue, but today Go is still specific to Google. If it really catches on in the way you describe, then it will be a viable language. But not today.