Well, the thing is that it's not necessarily easier to improve an existing language than to create a new one from scratch. There is a big advantage in starting

Well, the thing is that it's not necessarily easier to improve an existing language than to create a new one from scratch. There is a big advantage in starting all over - no backward compatibility headaches. Honestly I can't think of any existing language that's worth putting anyone's weight behind. Coffeescript - js has some horrible semantics and Coffeescript can't really hide all of them. Clojure - it's infinitely cool but it will never ever become the mainstream.