A language is not just a set of possible semantics, it‘s also an ecosystem that herds people towards using it in a certain way. If that ecosystem breaks down un

A language is not just a set of possible semantics, it‘s also an ecosystem that herds people towards using it in a certain way. If that ecosystem breaks down under certain conditions the language becomes unusable. I think that aspect of language design is often underappreciated and maybe the main reason why we don’t have (and maybe will never) a one language to rule them all.