There's archaic and there's minimalist, and they're definitely not the same. Languages with buckets of features have steeper and longer learning curves, and if

There's archaic and there's minimalist, and they're definitely not the same. Languages with buckets of features have steeper and longer learning curves, and if they're still actively developed, what you do learn may not last long. Go is what I'd call minimalist. COBOL or fortran are what I'd call archaic.