It's difficult to design whole languages (you won't get anywhere close some adoption in production at important places under ten years I guess; if you're lucky

It's difficult to design whole languages (you won't get anywhere close some adoption in production at important places under ten years I guess; if you're lucky of course). Having already something that proved its merit and strong foundations is for sure a good starter for a "new language" (as it would streamline the process to create such "new" language drastically). People are carving for powerful, safe, fast languages. So there is a market. If it's "only" about the verbosity and some cumbersome edges this could be fixed with some "overlay syntax". To be honest I'm one of those people that looked a few times at Ada as it was said to be powerful, fast, and safe. But it looks so awkward in my eyes; even I know I should not judge languages by syntax! The look-and-feel is just a strong point. I guess it's not only me… So I suspect a syntactic make-over could give new life to an old but powerful language. Just by making it look more "modern" (whatever this means).