You can return to this comment in 20 years and compare the state of languages then with the features programming languages implement in 2017. Today it is my op

You can return to this comment in 20 years and compare the state of languages then with the features programming languages implement in 2017. Today it is my opinion that languages differ most markedly in their syntax and some of the primitives, but generally speaking implement largely similar functionality. For this reason there are source-to-source compilers (transpilers) and it is very common to host one language in another, in the way that Wordpress was ported to .NET: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13753445 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13753445 The way in which this was done was to expand .NET to run php. Languages just don't do very much today, in my opinion. Everything is hard. If you disagree with me then we ca return to this in 20 years and compare the state then and now. I am not designing another language at the moment. The above is just my opinion.