Great read from a creator of a language. There are so many new languages these days, it is always enlightening to hear the author discuss design tradeoff's. That being said, man, its easy to forget how difficult and complicated creating a good language can be.

Makes me wonder if things like Linux, or C++, were historical anomalies, the stars aligned. How many good projects fail because of 'loosing arguments' that should have been won, or the community didn't form, etc... a million things..