D vs Go in real life

[Chris]

On Friday, 22 November 2013 at 18:11:34 UTC, Jesse Phillips wrote:
> On Friday, 22 November 2013 at 16:34:06 UTC, Chris wrote:
>> 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 doesn't, it is the creator which causes it. I think Go and 
> C# both prove that. Go has corporate backing, but it would be 
> silly to say the design is coming from Google and not the 
> creators (though they claim the community has influence in its 
> direction). C# is IMO a great language which I think is silly 
> to claim had anything but corporate interest driving it.

I remember the hype around C# when it was claimed that it was 
better than Java, then D. True or not, I don't like that kind of 
propaganda. I think it's better if a company uses a language, but 
the design is done somewhere else.