Comment by jacquesm

Languages should be small, not large. I find that every language I've ever used that tries to throw everything and the kitchensink at you eventually deteriorates into a mess that spills over into the projects based on that language in terms of long term instability. You should be able to take a 10 year old codebase, compile it and run it. Backwards compatibility is an absolute non-negotiable for programming languages and if you disagree with that you are building toys, not production grade systems.