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Why do they keep making new languages
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this post was submitted on 04 Aug 2023
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You can not perfect old languages, since there are a lot of features that you can not add on or change afterwards, OP. Not in a worthwile way. This is not a philosophical question, it wasn't for a lack of trying. And since there aren't enough skilled people in this niche, fashion driven field, expect history to repeat itself and some langs at best get 60 to 80% right.
You cannot perfect old languages. And you cannot write a new language without making architectural errors. And any new language that deviates significantly from what has gone before will only ever see niche success.
Thus what we have today is the best we can expect: gradual evolution of new languages, and gradual improvement of old languages. Neither has any particular advantage, but the industry as a whole keeps grasping at the eternal straw of the ‘silver bullet’ language that new languages promise.