>The only language that has come out recently that is successful purely because of the backing of a large company is Swift.
We don't know that. I mean it's not like ObjC, where the main pusher and motivation to adopt it was Apple having it for OS X (as evident by the relative lack of adoption of ObjC in Linux, NextStep etc).
Swift does have got people genuinely interested to use it even outside the Apple ecosystem, they just don't have the chance to, yet.
We don't know that. I mean it's not like ObjC, where the main pusher and motivation to adopt it was Apple having it for OS X (as evident by the relative lack of adoption of ObjC in Linux, NextStep etc).
Swift does have got people genuinely interested to use it even outside the Apple ecosystem, they just don't have the chance to, yet.