> I guess the majority of existing mainstream languages Given the wealth of languages out there, this still gives us a large amount of languages to pick from.

> I guess the majority of existing mainstream languages Given the wealth of languages out there, this still gives us a large amount of languages to pick from. > It's also about control. Once they implemented say, Python, there isn't then much room for improvement/change without it becoming a different language anyway. That's why they should have just standardized some IL format instead, and let real language designers target that IL.