Asked on Reddit: Which of Rust, D, Go, Nim, and Crystal is the strongest and why?

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On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 13:05:14 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
> On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 12:42:36 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
> wrote:
>> People are not abandoning Dart because shows any signs of 
>> being a dead or a bad language, they do it because they don't 
>> trust Google.
>
> My experience is many believe in corporate backing. Is it just 
> PR?

I don't know, but I think so. Lack of stability in Google forward 
looking statements causing trust issues? It would probably be 
different if Google offered support contracts.

I also suspect that Google projects are perceived as being too 
big to be taken over by an open source community, thus a move to 
github can be viewed as an long term attempt to ditch the project 
while saving face.

I don't think the idea that "open source means nobody can take it 
away from us" is something people believe in now that there are 
so many open source projects.