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 Fred Brooks warned us. There's no silver bullet.

@akpoff I do think that open source and program scale reuse (vs function scale) turned out to be the closest thing to a silver bullet we got.

@ID_AA_Carmack @akpoff Add to that language evolution and an ever increasing user base (web access is still expanding around the world) #AlwaysBetOnJavaScript.