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> It’s developed and supported exclusively by one huge web company, and they may decide to deprecate and replace it in a few years

Other than the "web" bit, isn't that true of most new languages, where $proposer is google, microsoft, typesafe, mozilla, redhat, netbrains?

Should people feel more secure if instead of being built and used by one large corporation it was built and used by a single guy? Or should we prefer not to have a big company supporting it?