> The more powerful our languages get[...], the easier it will be to compile languages from one language to another I'm not sure about this. Don't languages ge

> The more powerful our languages get[...], the easier it will be to compile languages from one language to another I'm not sure about this. Don't languages get their power from restrictions and opinionatedness, that create a fundamental impedance mismatch between any languages that aren't redundant? You can do anything the processor can do in assembly, and the unstructured mass is about as powerful as muscle with no bone. But maybe I'm reading "powerful" too positively. As languages get kitchen-sinky, as JavaScript/C++/Java are with reckless abandon, it will be easier to use them as translation targets (and harder to reason about the results). But won't kitchen-sinky languages eventually give way to languages that haven't yet had time to tie themselves in knots, as C++ (which finished the kitchen and is now putting a second sink in the bathroom) is losing ground to Rust (which only just bolted on async), in an endless cycle of collapse and renewal?