[zenron]

Gosu's roadmap... copy .NET and Groovy

Kotlin's roadmap... Copy Gosu and Groovy

Java's roadmap... Make Gosu, Groovy and Kotlin redundant by supporting the idioms of Gosu and Kotlin eventually and force those languages to 'nativize' their underlying implementations.

Manifold's roadmap... Ditch Gosu on the JVM and make a java library, copy all the stuff Java doesn't' have a plan for like .Net's (and by extension Gosu's) class extensions and java 8 to 9 workarounds

We could go on and on. Nothing new under the sun. Great minds think alike and at the end of the day the value of delivering a product is what matters in the end.

[alexashka]

Ah yes, that's exactly what the slave owners said before the civil war - look at the product we are delivering, and everyone else's doing it too!

Their argument was so compelling that we decided to keep having slaves.

[zenron]

That might be the worst analogies I've ever heard. Humans extracting value asymmetrically out of captive humans has nothing to do with new syntactical features and/or sugar of other languages that language developers are inspired implement to implement in their own language because they solve modern workflow. And those developers are well compensated for for their contributions being by monetary, notoriety or self satisfactory means.