I'm not sure that a "lingua franca" is even possible. Even if one language was so far ahead of the others that discussions like this thread were pointless, ther

I'm not sure that a "lingua franca" is even possible. Even if one language was so far ahead of the others that discussions like this thread were pointless, there would always be resistance from other developers. People just seem to get too attached to the idea of "There's one language to write everything in, and I pick this one."