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Is that even a feasible strategy for languages? I mean I get it for APIs... but we are talking about a language.

Visual J++?

> Some observers have remarked that this incompatibility appears to have been a deliberate aim of Microsoft's, in an attempt to at least slow the advance of Sun's Java technology.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_J%2B%2B

But Microsoft got sued and lost hard on that one. They created C# and .Net as competition, but they hardly extinguished Java.

That failed spectacularly.

Of course. The more they break Python compatibility, the more reasons new projects have to use the nearest competitor.. which is Go.

I would have thought the nearest competitor to Python was Ruby, JS or Julia, depending on the application.

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