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Re:The Sovereign Tech Fund Invests in Scala by oytis on Thursday January 29, 2026 @11:47AM (#46812671)
Python. Python is the most popular language designed in EU. EPFL is not even in EU
Re:The Sovereign Tech Fund Invests in Scala by epolanski on Thursday January 29, 2026 @11:51AM (#46812750)
Others worth mentioning are Kotlin, Ada, Pascal, Haskell, Zig, Erlang, Elixir, Prolog, Ocaml.
Re:The Sovereign Tech Fund Invests in Scala by rapnie on Thursday January 29, 2026 @01:21PM (#46814181)
Former EU, there's Gleam.
Re:The Sovereign Tech Fund Invests in Scala by homebrewer on Thursday January 29, 2026 @03:15PM (#46815942)
Kotlin is from St Petersburg, it's even named after an island near it.
Re:The Sovereign Tech Fund Invests in Scala by epolanski on Thursday January 29, 2026 @03:58PM (#46816485)
St. Petersburg is in Europe.

I thought what was worth mentioning was being European or not, rather than being part of an European legal entity or not.

Re:The Sovereign Tech Fund Invests in Scala by Y-bar on Thursday January 29, 2026 @03:26PM (#46816077)
PHP is also from Europe. Not sexy perhaps, but popular enough to mention.
Re:The Sovereign Tech Fund Invests in Scala by ternaryoperator on Thursday January 29, 2026 @05:08PM (#46817422)
How is Zig an EU language?
Re:The Sovereign Tech Fund Invests in Scala by epolanski on Friday January 30, 2026 @03:46AM (#46822002)
Andrew started the language while he was in Germany.
Re:The Sovereign Tech Fund Invests in Scala by ElectronCharge on Thursday January 29, 2026 @06:13PM (#46818225)
Sadly, I’m old enough to remember that Ada was the result of a US initiative to standardize a capable language for embedded development.

A good friend worked on the well regarded Telesoft compiler…

Re:The Sovereign Tech Fund Invests in Scala by forgotpwd16 on Thursday January 29, 2026 @12:00PM (#46812894)
True to both. My brain not braining. Was thinking Europe-based/driven. Python started in CWI but PSF is USA-based.
Re:The Sovereign Tech Fund Invests in Scala by seanhunter on Thursday January 29, 2026 @12:53PM (#46813714)
> EPFL is not even in EU

For people who don't get this, EPFL is the Swiss Federal Technical Institue in Lausanne. Switzerland isn't part of the EU or EEA but has instead integrated itself with the EU very closely via a mindboggling number of bilateral agreements with the EU members and the Schengen agreement which allows for free, borderless movement. This has the effect of making it seem very much like they are part of the EU without actually being as such.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland%E2%80%93European_U...