>> The existing ones are all deficient in rather serious ways But most of the new ones look and behave just like the old ones - but with slightly more awkward

>> The existing ones are all deficient in rather serious ways But most of the new ones look and behave just like the old ones - but with slightly more awkward syntax to allow for some special "feature" dear to the authors ;) I routinely check out the various new languages mentioned on HN and Lobsters. While plenty of languages are new to me, I'm yet to see any feature that is new to me :( I appreciate the work that goes into any language, but the stream of "new" languages feels like a stream of tweaks and rearrangement. It's disappointing. Most new languages come across as "like language X but with feature Y". Reminds me of all those "Airbnb for X" proposals from a few years ago:)