Most languages today come with a runtime. That makes it hard to interoperate with other languages/environments. To avoid this, a new programming language should

Most languages today come with a runtime. That makes it hard to interoperate with other languages/environments. To avoid this, a new programming language should either have no runtime (or a very minimal one), or be very explicit about which features it expects from its runtime and allow the runtime to be swapped out by something else (we might see something like that in the WASM sphere). Furthermore, I believe we'll start seeing an increase in tooling around languages, and a focus on reducing iteration latency. Traditionally, REPLs/live editing have been mostly associated with higher level languages, but there's no reason that those things could not be applied to low level languages as well. Finally, while I think that there will be always be room for both simpler and complex languages, the market for simple languages is somewhat underserved right now, so we'll start seeing more of those in the nearby future. Disclosure: I'm the author of Muon, which is a new programming language that tries to embody these principles: https://github.com/nickmqb/muon https://github.com/nickmqb/muon