The minimum bar for a language has moved up significantly since the 1990s. It isn't enough to just have a neat new idea, you need to ship with nearly-best-of-br

The minimum bar for a language has moved up significantly since the 1990s. It isn't enough to just have a neat new idea, you need to ship with nearly-best-of-breed JSON serialization, a web server, a huge standard library with not just strings but things like compression and a lot of networking, and a laundry list of other things (give or take a few things) just to make it to the "barely viable alternate choice" point. Nice as a language consumer, but a bummer that building new languages and getting some attention is so much harder than it used to be.