[adgjlsfhk1]

Julia is community managed. JuliaHub (previously known as JuliaComputing) does do a bunch of work on Julia, but doesn't "own" the language in the way Google does for Go. There are a number of Julia developers with exactly the same amount of control over Julia as anyone at JuliaHub has at a number of colleges and companies.

[Moissanite]

Sorry, not buying it. Entirely possible it is just a perception problem and not a real one, but the situation is just not comparable to a language like Fortran.

Google owning Go is a big downside, but I think people know that going in - also, Google makes no attempt to monetize the language.

[adgjlsfhk1]

The situation is very different from Fortran, but mostly in good ways. The Fortran standards committee's meetings aren't open to the public, and they publish a new version of the standard every 5 years that takes another 5 years for the compilers to catch up to (if they ever support the new version). In the Julia world, you just make a pull request on github, and if it's something that needs a discussion, it gets discussed in a meeting that happens every other week and is open to and takes input from anyone.