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The opposite is true: there are a lot of projects that failed because of the chosen language.

What are some famous examples?

Eclipse, Azureus, Minecraft, MySpace with ColdFusion, OpenOffice's Java parts...

These are the failed projects?!

These are the "famous" failed projects. All of them lost most of their user base or required a rewrite or lost to a faster competitor.

> Minecraft

Typo?

Why? It's horrendously slow thanks to the wrong language choice and also required a rewrite (bedrock).