In 2020 the number one OWASP security risk is injection and I don't think anyone's arguing that the current crop of languages are all crap.

Evaluating a language without judging what kind of projects it enables is nonsensical and leads to pointless language ivory tower discussions. I'm sure that also back then there were all sorts of awesome programming languages that nobody was using, but checked all the boxes that would make the average HN language enthusiast happy.