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Re:Ian Lance Taylor's Response to “Go Is Google's Language” by javajosh on Monday May 27, 2019 @12:45PM (#20023424)
> You have to be Mozilla, or Google, or someone it seems in order to convince people this language is for real

Counter-examples: Clojure, Elm.

Re:Ian Lance Taylor's Response to “Go Is Google's Language” by iends on Monday May 27, 2019 @12:52PM (#20023475)
Sorry, but those languages don't really have adoption outside of small echo chambers.
Re:Ian Lance Taylor's Response to “Go Is Google's Language” by DiseasedBadger on Monday May 27, 2019 @01:02PM (#20023554)
I've heard about those before. What are they?
Re:Ian Lance Taylor's Response to “Go Is Google's Language” by patosai on Monday May 27, 2019 @03:11PM (#20024549)
Elm is a JS framework for rendering views. It has a type system and guarantees no runtime errors while being fast. The language compiles into JS.

https://elm-lang.org/

Re:Ian Lance Taylor's Response to “Go Is Google's Language” by devbat8712 on Monday May 27, 2019 @01:35PM (#20023841)
clojure is lisp on the jvm. not sure about elm.
Re:Ian Lance Taylor's Response to “Go Is Google's Language” by mesaframe on Monday May 27, 2019 @03:11PM (#20024552)
I think they were being sarcastic.
Re:Ian Lance Taylor's Response to “Go Is Google's Language” by devbat8712 on Monday May 27, 2019 @07:34PM (#20026042)
oh, duh.