The problem is we stop pursuing answers on this topic, thus stop making progress. It's basically like what Bret Victor has described in 'The Future of Programmi

The problem is we stop pursuing answers on this topic, thus stop making progress. It's basically like what Bret Victor has described in 'The Future of Programming'. [0] There were a lot of language zealots at the end of the last century, especially on evangelizing Object-Oriented Programming. Nowadays everybody can easily counter those arguments with 'No Silver Bullet' without further thinking, it's arrogance in disguise of humility. There are still a huge amount of accidental complexities to deal with in most tech stacks. Most businesses would die fast and leave nothing behind anyway, while the progression of the industry would accumulate and benefit the whole industry itself. Java looks slightly better for creating software at scale than C. C looks slightly better than FORTRAN. FORTRAN looks slightly better than machine code. Say there's a language that looks like Haskell but has tooling and ecosystems as good as Java, I believe it would also slightly better than Java. [0]: https://youtu.be/8pTEmbeENF4 https://youtu.be/8pTEmbeENF4