[crnkofe]

It's a sad state of affairs. Every programming language is just copying the 'next cool' feature from another language. Duck typing, deconstruction, functional stream-like constructs you name it. I guess this ends when every language features is copied and we get X omni languages with Y omni SDK's all having same features with different syntax. The thing is that I only really need 1 omni language, not a dozen of them, so I feel that all the feature stealing in the end will be detrimental to all but the best supported omni language.

I guess some companies started fast with Ruby/Python and similar and instead of rewriting to static/typed languages they pushed forward features that would allow them to just continue where they left off at the expense of having a more concise problem oriented programming language that's good for solving specific problems.

[pjmlp]

Not really, what many seem to keep missing is that programming languages are products like anything else.

One buys into eco-systems, not language features bullet point list.

And there isn't something like an universal eco-system for any kind of business case, hence multiple languages.