If I were to design a programming language, I'd design it to be good, and to be easy to integrate with existing projects/codebases, and let popularity worry abo

If I were to design a programming language, I'd design it to be good, and to be easy to integrate with existing projects/codebases, and let popularity worry about itself. To my mind, Rich Hickey is the paragon of programming language creators. He scratched his own itch, he did a hell of a job, and now his language is quickly becoming popular with zero corporate support or explicit marketing.