[falcolas]

Gods no. No more. We already have hundreds (if not thousands) of programming languages for pretty much every niche out there (not to mention languages so flexible they can be adapted to meet any new niche).

What this kind of question tells me is that folks are tired of solving business cases, and long for technical challenges. There's nothing inherently wrong with this longing, but we have enough programming languages. Pick something else to solve. Please.

[mrpf1ster]

> I hope you can humour me and not challenge the assumptions baked into the question. That's a separate, if interesting, exercise.

[falcolas]

Challenging and questioning the assumptions behind a question makes for much more interesting fodder than a dozen lists of context-free requirements.

[rockostrich]

I imagine if this question was asked in 2010 then there would've been a similar answer from someone. And if no new programming languages were created at that point then we wouldn't have gotten Rust.

[falcolas]

A sacrifice I'm willing to make if it meant we hadn’t gotten the partially supported pile of dung that is Dart. For every potential gem, there are piles of ossified crap.

EDIT: Plus, Rust’s initial debut was mid-2010, so it would have been a coin flip chance at worst.