For every golang and rust, there's probably tens or hundreds of programming languages that will never end up popular. I guess that is to say the probablity that

For every golang and rust, there's probably tens or hundreds of programming languages that will never end up popular. I guess that is to say the probablity that vim9script will succeed isn't high. And golang initially started off as a replacement for C, and then pivoted because they couldn't achieve that purpose ... now, it's touted for simplicity. When Rust was a pet project of Graydon, it looked VERY different to what it is right now. My point is that vim9script as it stands right now doesn't solve any real world use case that lua wouldn't be better suited for. Maybe vim9script will be better for something else entirely in the future, and that will be, as you describe something people may like. But right now we don't even know what that is, and surely that can't be a reason to decide to go explore language design in such a large community such as the one vim has? It is definitely Bram's right to do so, but I fear that people will rather move to neovim or vscode or emacs than learn and write vim9script, and as a user of that community I think that would be bad. Also, it's not like people were proclaiming vimscript was awesome you know. There's a talk from one of the core devs of vim-lsp on YouTube [1], on features of vimscript, and literally in every slide the presenter caveats the vimscript feature in one way or another. I find it hilarious, it's a perfect example of the frustration of when writing plugins with vimscript. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fcJWwl1-SU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fcJWwl1-SU