Comment by jeswin
3 hours ago
It's a highly successful language because (1) it was backed by Google, and (2) created by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson.
If it came out of anywhere else, it might have struggled even to hit the homepage here.
This logic is easily shown to not hold. Why isn't Carbon, Dart, etc. not really popular then?
I can't speak about Dart, but Carbon had just barely started development when it was first announced 4 years ago, and is currently presented as an experimental language that is not yet ready for use [0].
0: https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang#project-statu...
Its just bitter dorks bitter their pet language with cutting edge programming abstractions didnt make it to the big leagues.