> It's only fairly recently that there's been critical mass of people who thought that performance trumps simplicity This definitely wasn't true, from the user

> It's only fairly recently that there's been critical mass of people who thought that performance trumps simplicity This definitely wasn't true, from the user perspective. And, I'm not even convinced it's some "critical mass" of developers. These changes aren't coming from some mass of developers, there's coming from a few experts that had a clear plan, backed by the sanity of the huge disconnect that languages are actually meant for users of the language, not the developers of the language.