I see the same pattern in JetBrains now, with Kotlin being their Delphi, trying to put it everywhere, instead of building on the strenghts of JVM/ART.

Everyone had their Lotus competion product on those days, Excel still wasn't the winner.

When Turbo Prolog came to be, every Prolog was a bit different. Even a decade later trying to write portable Prolog code between SWI and SICStus wasn't properly easy.