On Friday, 21 June 2013 at 11:13:49 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
If you have powerful entities pushing a language down developers throats, it will get used. That is how many mainstream languages got where they are now.
It will be used if its capabilities suit target domain. In other words, no matter how Java or C# were pushed, C is still de-facto standard in many places. And even Google influence won't bring Go there.
Same goes for Rust - I have no doubts it will get used if it technically can be used. But the latter can't be clear right now.
