For me, part of the problem is the fixation towards a "language ecosystem" per se that people seemingly have come to expect. What has happened to the idea that you could link object files/libs compiled from any number of different programming languages, all adhering to the OS's platform ABI? Where you the developer, and you alone, decides which language to use for coding a particular aspect of your app based on the respective language's fit to the problem in a polyglot fashion? For example, if your app needs a parser for a config language, say, you're free to use Prolog with its built-in parsing DSLs. Similarly, if your app involves DBs or GUIs, etc. PLs today are huge, unportable monoliths with shiny web sites when the point of a standardized PL, for me at least, has always very much been that it fences you against overreaching vendors, language world domination aspirations, and churn disguised as march of progress.