[liampulles]

I don't think it's so much a question of a better language so much as a different language. There are obviously tradeoffs one makes with all language designs.

What might be interesting is a language ecosystem, where one can write parts of a system in one language and other parts in another. The BEAM and JVM runtimes allow for this but I don't think I've seen any good examples of different languages commingling and playing to their strengths.

[valenterry]

Well, what I meant is that there is some language feature missing. So either the language gets "better" in the sense that this feature is being added, or a different language is chosen, that is already "better" in that the feature already exists. So yeah.

> The BEAM and JVM runtimes allow for this but I don't think I've seen any good examples of different languages commingling and playing to their strengths.

Probably because the runtime is always the lowest common denominator. That being said, there are lots of tools e.g. written in Scala but then being used by Java, such as Akka or Spark. And the other way around of course.