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I can't answer the question, but I find it exciting that we're in this age where we can have these discussions. Maybe in the future programming languages will consolidate, and people will fondly look back at these times of experimentation as a "golden age", as when Ritchie and Thompson were creating Linux, or Xerox PARC / Apple were inventing the computer mouse UX.

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I'm not sure market forces would allow for that. Microsoft, Apple, Google, etc, have reasons to push their own languages. There are also some drivers for independent groups to push theirs. What would force the consolidation? If you compare to the death of RISC, the driver was the hugely lower cost of x86-64 combined with Linux finally maturing. Is there something similar here?

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