Much less effort to build a language (without megacorp backing) if you're building off a battle tested runtime.
I'm absolutely not saying this to discredit the work that's gone into Clojure, Elixir et al, but it does lend credence to the idea of building for an existing ecosystem instead of bootstrapping your own (along with "seamless" interop as a first class concern)
If anyone can crack seamless interop between natively compiled languages to dodge ABI hell they'll earn a nice place in history
Much less effort to build a language (without megacorp backing) if you're building off a battle tested runtime.
I'm absolutely not saying this to discredit the work that's gone into Clojure, Elixir et al, but it does lend credence to the idea of building for an existing ecosystem instead of bootstrapping your own (along with "seamless" interop as a first class concern)
If anyone can crack seamless interop between natively compiled languages to dodge ABI hell they'll earn a nice place in history