[liftsh]

Reminds me of Resources from Scala. I keep seeing features being carried over from language to language--I wonder if we'll eventually reach convergence where all languages, perhaps within several broad groups like OOP vs FP, look the same with minor syntactical differences.

[3cats-in-a-coat]

You're describing entropy. Properties and values distribute in the space until we reach equilibrium. Making all languages mostly the same. Unfortunately this doesn't mean we've found the ultimate programming language. We simply stopped innovating, believing there's nothing to innovate about (while actually we're in a local maximum).

[TazeTSchnitzel]

In the 2000s, all the popular languages had C-like syntax and many had similar semantics. But now we're in a world with more diversity (Rust, Swift), so I think things are less convergent than they used to be.