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We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36779614.
The only other people who will care about such a post are the people who feel as pro-$LANG and/or anti-$LANG as you do - and then the two tribes will bash each other with clubs. This dynamic has been known at least since Usenet and it's very much what we don't want on HN, so please don't do it here.
e.g. Here's DOOM running in V (translated from C). Seems pretty serious:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oXrz3oRoEg
Also, can you look at this recent 0.4 changelog with 370 items and say the language is not serious?