> If you were a language designer of some renown, you might convince a large and wealthy technology company to fund your work on a new language which isn’t so beholden to C runtime, especially if you had a sterling reputation as a systems engineer with a deep knowledge of C and UNIX and could leverage that (and the reputation of the company) to get rapid adoption of your language. Having achieved such an influential position, you might introduce a new paradigm, like stackful coroutines or effect handlers, liberating programmers from the false choice between threads and futures. If Liebniz is right that we live in the best of all possible worlds, surely this is what you would do with that once in a generation opportunity.
This seems... a bit specific? Was it a reference to a specific new language or was that more of a poignant wish?
This seems... a bit specific? Was it a reference to a specific new language or was that more of a poignant wish?