Your point about support is well taken, but while Rust is being supported by Firefox, it was Graydon Hoare's side project for 3 years. It is at least possible f

Your point about support is well taken, but while Rust is being supported by Firefox, it was Graydon Hoare's side project for 3 years. It is at least possible for an individual to run with an idea for a static language and get community or corporate support, even if it is tremendously difficult. And I don't know if you can say that the language sprang from the requirement. It did, so far as a lot of people have had longstanding dissatisfaction with C++, but I'm not sure Mozilla originally was looking for a replacement (ditto for Google and Go--though lessons learned there may not apply to people who aren't Rob Pike...). I agree with you so far as it can't be a language you don't want to make. I don't think this article describes that, but a more modest set of constraints. Elsewhere, the author mentions Julia as a positive inspiration. I think the idea of compromise depends on the idea you're trying to bring into the world. You can't compromise your core idea, but you can compromise on other things. I guess I'm making assumptions about what the author is compromising that I'm not entitled to. Perhaps you know that I'm wrong.