Google's Go team is not that large AFAIK. It's probably my love affair with Lisp speaking, but I really think there is space for PLs to implement 80% of produc

Google's Go team is not that large AFAIK. It's probably my love affair with Lisp speaking, but I really think there is space for PLs to implement 80% of production-level features with 20% effort and improve slowly as they turn out to be blockers. There's also a branding thing: users who are put off by lack of corporate funding won't be working on the ground floor of building a PL anyway. That's fine. LLVM/JVM/WASM give leverage to both indie and corporate langs. More of those types of tools are great.