Only if you want it to thrive. There are a number of interesting backwater languages that never get more than passing interest. Even the motivated developers th

Only if you want it to thrive. There are a number of interesting backwater languages that never get more than passing interest. Even the motivated developers that experiment with languages move on after a time if they can't do anything more than write Fib() with it. Take the case of Lua. A compelling small language if ever there was one. It has many great things going for it: simple syntax, elegant grammar, small and efficient VM. Even after 15 years it has only gotten traction among game developers and as an embedded language. The obvious reason why is that their standard library is very small (for important reasons).