Comment by danielscrubs

Either you start making a language from a sound theoretical foundation and then implement it (Koka springs to mind) or you implement a language from some syntactic gripes and then try to find the theoretical foundation later… Go was impressive in the practical sense (compiler speed, channels in std and good tooling) but a shit show otherwise. I’ve completely lost any confidence that FANG will be able to make some great language because they always take the easy way (makes more business sense, see Dart). Academia on the other hand will make great languages that never reaches critical mass.