You could say the same thing about Erlang and Elixir. Or Java and Kotlin / Scala. Depending on how well an alternative syntax is requested and adopted by the

You could say the same thing about Erlang and Elixir. Or Java and Kotlin / Scala. Depending on how well an alternative syntax is requested and adopted by the existing ecosystem surrounding the particular VM, YMMV. Without knowing, I think you get quite different answers in each case.