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Impossible to answer, how much would uptake would C# have had without Microsoft behind it pushing it HARD (MUCH more than Google has promoted Go), how much would Swift have had without being pushed hard by Apple as the new native language to replace ObjectiveC etc ?


That is exactly my point, it would have been probably a footnote in programming languages compendium.

Case in point, how interested were people in using Limbo?


>That is exactly my point

The point being that unless you have a huge rich company behind you, you will remain a footnote ?


Without that or a kind of killer application, e.g. Rails, yes.


Too little. Which probably goes to show that uptake doesn't prove much.




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