If the idea is to retain the modern features, focus attention on them and peel off all the superseded old stuff then I’m all for it. Seems to me languages that

If the idea is to retain the modern features, focus attention on them and peel off all the superseded old stuff then I’m all for it. Seems to me languages that focus on backward compatibility end up with a great modern core but it kinda gets lost because how do you know that the modern core? Developers learning can’t know what’s new and best and recognize what’s old noise. It has to be said though that googles reputation for killing projects overshadows anything they do.