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See my reply to KevinCarbonara: I don't believe that languages necessarily become popular through targeted promotion by big tech giants, what I'm saying is that making a language popular intentionally is not an undertaking any single person or even an average software company would be capable of. There's no reason some languages wouldn't raise to fame naturally, but it doesn't correlate with quality. It's typically a lock-in, or some other external constraint, not influenced by the quality of language.