Languages face enormous pressure to add features, just like any other product. There's a culture of picking languages by counting checkboxes - "if your language

Languages face enormous pressure to add features, just like any other product. There's a culture of picking languages by counting checkboxes - "if your language doesn't have X, it's Blub", where X can be anything from sum types to lazy evaluation - and little awareness that, like any other product, features have cost that's difficult to measure. I think there's space for a language that is less, and is "done". When it's announced on this website, the comments will be "so it's Rust without X, or Kotlin without Y", but those comments will be in the same vein as "why not use rsync" and "less space than a nomad".