It's iterative pressure to push features further down the stack. Early Unix did very little! Modern BSDs ship in a very "complete" state. The early Lisps put ve

It's iterative pressure to push features further down the stack. Early Unix did very little! Modern BSDs ship in a very "complete" state. The early Lisps put very little in the language, but Raku shoves every trivial thing that would go into an npm library into the language spec. The C language made you figure out how you wanted to build your code, while every new compiled language comes with some form of build tooling. There are certain things we are doing in this landscape that are pretty effective, but they are done outside of the "you, the machine, and a greenfield project" context that drove Wirth's endeavors. The problem tends to be that they come with certain monumental thresholds of "big dependency" like a database or browser engine, and if you don't like how the big dependency was made you end up unhappy.