Stop Building on Corporate-Controlled Languages

Re:Stop Building on Corporate-Controlled Languages by hgsgm on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @02:00PM (#34431269)

Name a popular language without corporate backing.

C was corporate, AT&T.

C++ was corporate, AT&T.

Java was corporate, Sun.

Maybe Perl wasn't corporate. Had a great run but faded.

Python? Maybe, but Guido van Rossum worked at Google and Dropbox for many years.

Ruby? Is popular because Rails, corporate.

JavaScript? Mozilla.

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Re:Stop Building on Corporate-Controlled Languages by robryan on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @03:35PM (#34432690)

PHP? You could argue Facebook but they mostly went and built their own thing that at best was inspiration of later PHP versions.

As far as I know currently the only real paid full time contributors are from the relatively newly formed PHP foundation.

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Re:Stop Building on Corporate-Controlled Languages by stonemetal12 on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @04:28PM (#34433350)

Lisp, and OCaml are about as close as I can get. I would argue Haskell (several of GHC's core team worked at MS though). I would also argue Python was popular before Guido worked at Google. Those 4 all came out of academia though so they had backing just not corporate backing.

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Re:Stop Building on Corporate-Controlled Languages by pjmlp on Thursday January 19, 2023 @02:22AM (#34437603)

OCaml - INRIA and Jane Street, Facebook, Microsoft research

Lisp - IBM, Xerox, MIT, Apple

Python - CWI, NIST, CNRI, afterwards Guido joined Google in 2000

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Re:Stop Building on Corporate-Controlled Languages by goodpoint on Monday January 23, 2023 @02:02PM (#34493359)

Very much Python.

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