Programming language design as a discipline improves more slowly than anyone admits, and truth be told, we're trading off more than improving. 1. Your new lang

Programming language design as a discipline improves more slowly than anyone admits, and truth be told, we're trading off more than improving. 1. Your new language will die, but not because of the language, but because it's so hard to build out a standard library for it. 2. We still don't agree on the basics and fundamentals. 3. We are arguing from elitism (and its sibling, anti-elitism) more often than "make it easier".