D vs Go in real life

[Chris]

On Friday, 22 November 2013 at 16:24:25 UTC, Jesse Phillips wrote:
> On Friday, 22 November 2013 at 15:56:14 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>> background of language designers.
>
> Which just reinforces my point. It is the language designer 
> (creator) which dictates the result of the language. Being a 
> corporation isn't what is going to drive it (much).

But being a corporation bars the community from influencing the 
language design. It reinforces self-righteousness and tunnel 
vision, committee thinking. And of course the language will go in 
a direction that suits its application within the corporation 
(web, gaming and the like). There are just too many things 
attached to a language developed by a corporation, things that 
have nothing to do with the language as such. (And don't forget 
BIG EGOS, we tend to forget that language designers are human 
beings with all their flaws and shortcomings).