There are so many languages available these days, so the first thing to ask is "what is unique and beneficial about my language?" (valid answers might be that it is a unique combination of features seen elsewhere, that it addresses a specific domain's problems better than any general-purpose language, or that it is an experiment.)
Someone made an interesting point about Kotlin recently: as one might hope for a language coming from an IDE maker, it has excellent tools. I have heard Alan Kay make a similar comment about Smalltalk. There are a couple of semi-popular languages that I feel are significantly disadvantaged by their lack of tools support (primarily in debugging and documentation.)
Someone made an interesting point about Kotlin recently: as one might hope for a language coming from an IDE maker, it has excellent tools. I have heard Alan Kay make a similar comment about Smalltalk. There are a couple of semi-popular languages that I feel are significantly disadvantaged by their lack of tools support (primarily in debugging and documentation.)