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What other programming languages have established foundations like this? The other one I know of is the Python Software Foundation.

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"like this" is complicated, because different foundations do different things, but, beyond the Python Software Foundation, there is:

* The OpenJS Foundation (Node)

* Ruby Central is similar but also different

* Parrot (for Perl 6...) had a foundation, not clear on what the project is like now though

* https://www.perlfoundation.org/

And of course, many many foundations that support open source projects that aren't programming languages.

Zig also debuted their foundation a few weeks ago; https://ziglang.org/zsf/

Based on an inartful Googling, here are some additional ones:

* D [1]

* F# [2]

* Perl [3]

I'm sure there are more.

1: https://dlang.org/foundation/about.html 2: https://fsharp.org/ 3: https://www.perlfoundation.org/

The first coming to my mind is the .NETfoundation https://dotnetfoundation.org/

baked by Microsoft but more and more community driven

Zig: https://ziglang.org/zsf/

The Elixir / Erlang community: https://erlef.org/

The Perl Foundation (https://www.perlfoundation.org/) has existed for many years. I've been a board member for a year or so.

We began life primarily to support the YAPC (Yet Another Perl Conference) community-run conferences, but now we also support development of the language itself.

Correction: We now support both the Perl and Raku languages, as well as conferences for those languages.

Apologies for the mistake!

Red language; foundation is based in Paris, France.

https://scala.epfl.ch

"A new not-for-profit center established at EPFL."

Microsoft did this a few years ago for .NET and it seems to have been a really smooth process.

Hopefully they're advising Mozilla on this.

Zig !

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