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		firesteelrain on Sept 15, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Where are programming languages created? A zoomabl... Rust though didn’t gain traction until Mozilla adopted it. I guess we could say individuals always created programming languages but majority are sponsored and paid by orgs/companies.

flohofwoe on Sept 15, 2024 [–]

Before LLVM it was much harder for individuals to build competitive programming languages though (edited my original post with that afterthought, apologies)

firesteelrain on Sept 15, 2024 | [–]

That is a true and its a good point. Maybe we will see a bunch of new languages because of that.

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