Sarcasm aside, while I think striving to be better is great, sometimes I wish there was just a standard language for programming.
I realize it depends on the context (mobile, web, desktop application, different platforms) but it can feel overwhelming when in the end, they all pretty much do the same thing: tell a computer to do things.
Red is not a new language.
Five-ish years ago they were aiming for a 1.0 within a year while still having major milestones like adding actors (and re-writing half of internals to support actors) on the roadmap.
Also, worth reading Paul Grahams "Blub Paradox" article from decades ago... http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html (hopefully you know who he is given you are here on HN)
Approved by a Central Planning Committee, I suppose?
Good news, there is such a standard, and you can buy it here: https://webstore.ansi.org/standards/incits/ansix3531976r1998
Some choice quotes from the Wikipedia page ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PL/I ):
> PL/I (Programming Language One) is a procedural, imperative computer programming language initially developed by IBM. The PL/1 ANSI standard, X3.53-1976, was published in 1976. It is designed for scientific, engineering, business and system programming.
> IBM wanted a single programming language for all users.
> The language is designed to be all things to all programmers.[vague]