Can commercial backed language can become dominant?

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Seeing news such as this: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/js-overview.htmlGot me wondered.We have gone long way since ActiveX, Flash and closed web standards.Can a commercially backed language (swift, Kotlin) can become dominant again?

rmk · Accepted Answer

The Go programming language is pretty much backed by Google. It really did not have a life outside of google AFAIK, when it burst onto the scene. It's now become the de-facto systems programming language. C is pretty much not used at the majority of places that need a lower-level statically typed, compiled language that needs no installed runtime; Go is now filling that use-case in a large majority of situations.

nickmyersdt · Answer

Java was created by Sun Microsystems.SQL was created by IBM.C# was created by Microsoft.I don't know if your question was intended to mean "commercially successful" or if by commercially-backed you may have meant "closed source".

andsbf · Answer

Maybe Typescript?

Can commercial backed language can become dominant?

Seeing news such as this: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/js-overview.html
Got me wondered.
We have gone long way since ActiveX, Flash and closed web standards.
Can a commercially backed language (swift, Kotlin) can become dominant again?

Java was created by Sun Microsystems.
SQL was created by IBM.
C# was created by Microsoft.
I don't know if your question was intended to mean "commercially successful" or if by commercially-backed you may have meant "closed source".

Maybe Typescript?