I'm doing a presentation today where I say that Arc is a failure and I always feel guilty about that. But the thing is, I think the real reason for the fail is

I'm doing a presentation today where I say that Arc is a failure and I always feel guilty about that. But the thing is, I think the real reason for the fail is in the book "Art and Fear." If you focus on quality, you end up with inferior quality compared to people who focus on quantity. You have a much better chance of creating a 100-year language if you create a 100 languages in a year. Remember, Lisp is at least a 50-year language, and Lisp was originally created as a joke or a teaching example or something. The great bearded wonder, the one that Lisp guys make shirts of, Schultz or McCarthy or whatever his name was, only wrote up the spec to make a point, some kind of math thing iirc, and somebody egged him on and they ended up implementing it. But it wasn't that he just had this magic ability to build a great language. He made a thousand other snarky points in his life, and this one just happened to be so well phrased, mathematically, that it trumps all other languages, in the opinion of many people. That's not a one-time stroke of luck in the language design department; it's the results of decades honing his craft as a master of snark.