Yes I can absolutely imagine that. I believe such a decision would have been welcomed enthusiastically. Early adopters of a new hardware/OS platform are extreme

Yes I can absolutely imagine that. I believe such a decision would have been welcomed enthusiastically. Early adopters of a new hardware/OS platform are extremely easy to win over with an exciting new language. Others would have followed in good time. Don't you see all those "why we switched from language A to language B" stories that seem to come up every other day? No need to read them. The content is not important. All they ever mean to say is "we were so bored with that old language and now we're thrilled to try something new!"