I just learned that the Qt framework that powers so much of Ubuntu Touch🇩🇪 is Finnish.
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Python was created by a Dutch programmer.
Pascal was created by a Swiss programmer.
C# and Typescript were created by a Danish software architect, working for Microsoft.
PHP was created by a Danish-Canadian developer
Ada was originally designed by a team led by a French developer
The original Pascal was created by a Swiss developer, who also worked on Object Pascal alongside a Danish developer.
Scala’s core team are French
They are Swiss (EPFL)
Nobody has mentioned this guy yet
A few from the UK:
- 🇬🇧 ARM and Acorn assembly languages
- 🇬🇧 BBC BASIC
- 🏴 Haggis (reference pseudocode; unused outside of exams)
- 🏴 Draig (Cymraeg implementation of Raku)
Not sure ARM64 really counts as it’s own thing it is so “normal”. (Unlike ARM32/24)
Qt originates from Norway. Most of the dev team was in Oslo, with small teams in Berlin and Brisbane.
I agree Qt is a language. C+++. It own preprocessor before the C/C++ preprocessor. Unless that has gone now… been a while since I was made to do Qt.
Erlang was developed by Ericsson, a Swedish company.
Why was Erlang not developed in Erlangen though?
Nix was invented buy a Dutch guy
Scala is Swiss, created at EPFL in Lausanne
It’s not about tearing others down but about recognizing the talent we have at home.
