The saddest of all this is the fact that "it is a lean platform that allows you to build what you want" (basically 'no bateries included') is considered as something to be praised, like "Look how small and simple its source code is"... Well of course it will be small and simple and there are few files that needed to be compiled for the whole thing, but in the "remote case" that you want to build anything meaningful with it you will need to write the other 1500 files (most certainly with "not as clean code") that many other more mature languages already have

Just don't be a hipster... In deed most languages created past C++ have added very little innovation, its just "my own vanilla flavor" (yet it is still vanilla) some, very few indeed, have added valuable syntactic sugar, yet how I wish new languages stopped being created pretending to excel at a corner case that gives you "huge benefits" (which of course are all thrown to waste when you realize most of your application cycles and latency actually comes from other places rather than such corner case.

This is not an argument for "new* languages are bad" , rather one of "until trully needed reinvent the wheel" and I think that will happen when we finally get to use qbits and new paradigms of coding/logic arise (basically an architecture change)