I think credit has to go to Anders (or perhaps just the whole team). I think the experience of already shipping multiple languages that were used by millions an

I think credit has to go to Anders (or perhaps just the whole team). I think the experience of already shipping multiple languages that were used by millions and learning lessons from those has helped enormously in building a language that is actually adopted. See the discussions of soundness versus usability in typescript where they took a lot of heat from some people, but I believe absolutely have made the correct compromises.