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0 pointseduction2y ago0 comments

This is a good point but also a little circular since the good vendor specific languages tend to break free — like Netscape’s (and nominally Sun’s) JavaScript :-)

(and I think SQL started at IBM but I’m not sure if they tried to keep it proprietary or make it a standard)

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schmichael2y ago

Sometimes! Google still controls Go. Microsoft has retained control of dotnet. Java more successfully escaped Sun/Oracle, but that ecosystem is still governed by a very small number of mostly very large companies.

Regardless the author getting 7+ years of runway out of a specific technology is hardly a waste! My average technology switching time is probably closer to 5-6 years.

eductionOP2y ago

True! I think used Perl about that long, and probably Ruby after that. And those are (obviously) general purpose.

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