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Such as Julia (https://julialang.org/), which is general-purpose and open-source.

> julialang.org > no mention of "license" > "Julia is a NumFocus project"

it is a non-profit corporation, but still a corporation. Whose life depend on donations from the owners of the other languages you compared julia against.

This is definitely not true of ReasonML. ReasonML is just one part of a larger ecosystem that is pushed forward by a combination of academia and industry, and ReasonML is is very community focused/driven.

dom96 was probably thinking of Nim[0], as they're one of the developers in the project.

[0] https://nim-lang.org

Yes, as well as libraries, tools, applications that are not in the hands of one or few companies only.

Plenty of technologies get hyped up by companies and later on bent out of shape or dropped.

C++.