Table stakes for a general purpose language is some kind of interop story for c. It’s highly unlikely anyone is going to write a BLAS from scratch in your new language, for example.

Gosling makes a good point regarding the importance of general purpose programming languages, but Dana Gardner also makes a good point as to why Java is losing out to LAMP technologies.

5. C++ C++, a general purpose object-oriented programming language based on the earlier ‘C’ language, is also a steady addition to the list.

A high-level programming language that is interpreted (translated on the fly) rather than compiled ahead of time. A scripting language may be a general-purpose programming language or it may be ...

Lead developer and president of the Zig Software Foundation, Andrew Kelley, outlines Zig as a “general purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal and reusable ...

Why shouldn’t those “interfaces” be humanely designed? Let that sink in. Programming languages are tools, designed by people for a specific purpose.