[nirav]

It is interesting to see how start-ups (twitter, forsquare and now yammer) adopting or dropping programming languages rains hailstorm on twitter, HN and blogosphere. As a serious PL designer, start-ups seem to be the prime market to target your language.

[trimbo]

Same goes for the nouveau databases. It's going to be hard to get traction in an enterprise that can already afford and/or has purchased Oracle.