[oblio]

Big companies have their own gravity.

The world for sure didn't need Go, yet we got it, and it's gaining mindshare versus stuff like C/C++/Python/Perl/PHP/Ruby/OCaml/... (I'm not including Java and C# as those are also enterprise languages).

Angular, React, same story.

Sometimes it's good, but with stuff like Dart you can definitely feel thatsome Googlers are bored and desperately want to own their language instead of contributing to a pre-existing language.

Reason vs OCaml, etc. there are a ton of examples.

Basically big companies can afford to throw a ton of money into their own open source projects, basically depriving true community open source projects of the attention/oxygen they need.

There are pluses and minuses to this... But we should definitely start pushing back when the open source project is a clear open source "land grab" (for example to me Dart definitely falls into this category).