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by firesteelrain 635 days ago
Which most recent (and how recent) were started by individuals in their spare time?

Perl is one that comes to mind and it’s old.
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flohofwoe 635 days ago
Rust, Zig, Odin, Nim are probably the most popular. It's also not surprising IMHO, most software is created to scratch a particular itch of an individual. Also specifically for programming languages, LLVM made it possible for individuals to build their own pet language with relatively little effort but still get competitive performance and target platform coverage.
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firesteelrain 635 days ago
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.
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flohofwoe 635 days ago
Before LLVM it was much harder for individuals to build competitive programming languages though (edited my original post with that afterthought, apologies)
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firesteelrain 635 days ago
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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