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by Mawr 23 days ago
You underestimate the difficulty of designing a language by at least an order of magnitude.

You've basically arbitrarily focused on a particular flawed design decision of a language while ignoring a thousand others that they may well have gotten right.

It's not possible to just sit down and get everything 100% right up front. The language design space has too much both depth and breadth to it.