I don’t think launching Go today would have been better than 15 years ago.
replyStandard ML is a perfect programming language from the 90s. It unfortunately does not have a great eco system of packages.
I mean one thing frontier models are really good at is porting code with pretty low level of supervision. Provided there are enough fans porting packages from other ecosystems should not be a big challenge.
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