There is some of that, some of the trends in language development and also some stuff about hardware+ makes my eye twitch a bit. Of late it's made to consider that language designers seem to be really focused on batch calculation speeds. Where real time code is 50% about producing side effects with the correct timing and sequence.

+ Friend of mine that works on high end video processors mentioned getting into a pissing match with the hardware guys because the particular processor they were designing had back ground machinery that would run and 'stop the world' for a ~ms. He say 'you can't do that' and they respond with 'the benchmarks run fine, go away'