Out of 6 languages recommended by the NSA, 4 are patended bvy multibillion comanies who can pull the plug on them at any time (and Oracle already tried that).
C# - PATENTED by Microsoft,
Go - PATENTED by Google
Java - PATENTED by Oracle, NOT FREE
Python - not too shabby
Rust - not too shabby
Swift - PATENTED by Apple
People who are saying that these patented languages are open soruce or ISO standardised, have never heard of H.264.
H.264 is both open source and an ISO standard and you'll still get slapped with fees if you try to peddle your own encoder, even if you wrote it from scratch.
Or are you saying "These corporations would never do this to us!" because oh boy, do I have a bridge to sell you!
@sos Oh yeah, MPEG-LA love their per encoder and per decoder fees.