> why such new ones would emerge, People create languages all the time. Some languages (like PHP) were just created for problems that the creators had, not for

> why such new ones would emerge, People create languages all the time. Some languages (like PHP) were just created for problems that the creators had, not for some overriding empirical reason. Dynamic languages also tend to be easier to make. There's nothing to suggest people will stop creating languages and then adopting them, when they are tailored toward specific problems. Any reasoning as to why they might not appear is hand waving for attention.