Typescript was Microsoft and Swift was Apple, so those follow the same pattern of Go and Rust.
10 years is enough time. The industry was absolutely using Perl (1987) in 1997 and I was using Python (1991) professionally by 2003.
I mentioned Zig already; Julia also feels like it fizzled in a similar way, by getting attention without commensurate adoption.
But I will concede that you're right about Lean. It feels important that it's solving tomorrow's problem (i.e. today's) rather than yesterday's problem.
10 years is enough time. The industry was absolutely using Perl (1987) in 1997 and I was using Python (1991) professionally by 2003.
I mentioned Zig already; Julia also feels like it fizzled in a similar way, by getting attention without commensurate adoption.
But I will concede that you're right about Lean. It feels important that it's solving tomorrow's problem (i.e. today's) rather than yesterday's problem.