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What a terrible world that would be. For a while, 20 years ago, it looked like Java was going to be the one language to rule them all; dodged that bullet.

Kitchen sink languages are my least favorite. Give me something with a tight focus on a problem space.

There were some studies about the impact of the loss of some natural languages. Some represent a complete different ways of handling the world that are worth keeping.

And there is no one size fits all.

> with a single one slowly pushing the rest to the sidelines.

That didn't quite happen.

> How many languages do we need again? Till you eliminate all tradeoffs in a single language, there would be new ones.

Indeed lisp is slowly (very very slowly) doing this. Witness how it seems to get reinvented or embedded in every other language.