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by zmmmmm 2429 days ago
> Guest languages never get to own a platform, and with time all platform languages end up getting enough features

They do up to the point where they differ philosophically. Java is never going to turn in to a Clojure, nor is it going to adopt the type of dynamic scripting features Groovy offers.

Kotlin and Scala are more at risk in that way.