> [A]ll languages which don't add anything new and improved are a drag on our collective computing experience.
If people weren't experimenting with weird esoteric languages, how would we have gotten any of the languages you list here? If I'm recalling correctly, K is descended from APL, a language you needed a special keyboard even to use. Rust synthesizes ideas from lots of small academic languages no one will ever ship software on.
I'm not against esoteric languages at all! (as long as they bring something conceptually new/different :)
I guess my main gripe is the duplication of effort: same thing with a slightly different spin, the time wasted learning different libraries doing fundamentally the same thing, etc.
If people weren't experimenting with weird esoteric languages, how would we have gotten any of the languages you list here? If I'm recalling correctly, K is descended from APL, a language you needed a special keyboard even to use. Rust synthesizes ideas from lots of small academic languages no one will ever ship software on.