An "ideal" language is so much more than just the type system or safety or expressibility. This is true of natural languages just as much as computer languages.

An "ideal" language is so much more than just the type system or safety or expressibility. This is true of natural languages just as much as computer languages. It has just as much to do with the tooling, community, support and adoption - again, just like natural languages. I think the ubiquitous languages ARE the best languages because the purpose of any language, natural, computer or otherwise is to transmit information and meaning. And the ubiquitous ones are, by definition, best suited for that.