Despite all the effort that has gone into it, it doesn’t look like programming language design has any real compounding power. There are better and worse languages, but other market and technical forces can swamp language choices.

@ID_AA_Carmack You're right, but #AlwaysBetOnJavaScript unless you're building high performance native applications, in which case use C, or C++, Rust, Zig, or any other non-garbage collected language, whichever seems easiest to learn for you. I'd personally use Rust since I hate header files.