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Re:Rob Pike on the reasons for Go’s success by RcouF1uZ4gsC on Thursday October 31, 2019 @12:43PM (#21410734)
> Because we also had Perl, PHP, Python and Ruby that don't fit your explanation.

That is why I specifically called out compiled languages. Perl, PHP, Python, and Ruby are all interpreted languages. For some reason, interpreted languages seem to be able to do ok without a big company backing them, but compiled languages seem need a big company to back them.

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Re:Rob Pike on the reasons for Go’s success by akavi on Thursday October 31, 2019 @12:49PM (#21410808)
I think the distinction is between statically typed and dynamically typed languages, which for other reasons lines up with compiled vs. interpreted.

A lot of the benefit of statically typed languages are the tooling around them (IDE integration/autocomplete/error messages). These represent a fairly expensive (resource wise) area of investment and so the resources of a large company has high ROI.

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