DConf 2013 Closing Keynote: Quo Vadis by Andrei Alexandrescu

[Joseph Rushton Wakeling]

On Wednesday, 26 June 2013 at 12:39:05 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2013-06-26 12:16, Leandro Lucarella wrote:
>
>> Yeah, right, probably Python and Ruby have only 5k users...
>
> There are companies backing those languages, at least Ruby, to 
> some extent.

They don't own them, though -- they commit resources to them 
because the language's ongoing development serves their business 
needs.