On Tuesday, 24 July 2018 at 00:41:54 UTC, RhyS wrote:
I am sorry to say but to succeed as a language beyond being a small or hobby language it takes: Being established already or having a big name to hype behind your "product". Anything beyond that will have topic derail and frankly, its more negative then positive.
If I'm not wrong, Python has grown up really slowly and quietly, till the recent big success in the scientific field.
I remember also when Ruby was released, and what a killer application like Ruby on Rails has done for its success.
/Paolo
