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C++ is a giant language, it has accumulated sooo many features, so a small language can be cut out from it that offers a more concise set of features, may Zig is that language. Perl same story. And Ruby may be that language that was cut out of Perl. Haskell has a problem like that as well, and (while not a general purpose language) Elm is a neat, concise small language that's cut out of Haskell. As the author of this NeoHaskell commentary explains, I also do not see how NeoHaskell fits in here (epecially since it tries to be Haskell compatible). ----- I also see the opposite, Java and Go for instance have a small feature set and miss ergonomics (and an std lib designed based on those ergonomics). Java recently got Kotlin, which seems to me a great "Java 2.0". Go may also benefit from a language that builds on top and provides great interop with the Go std lib and ecosystem.