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by erik_seaberg 635 days ago
> A move only the reigning search engine king would dare.

It was a reskin of Limbo, which they had released at Bell Labs without a lot of traction.

> Most new languages never overcome basic performance issues.

Poor performance is a problem with an implementation. Poor expressiveness is a problem with the grammar and semantics of every implementation, especially when you don't let end users extend the language to their needs.