> And unfortunately, while there are quite a few languages with these features, only few have the critical mass, long term support, and infrastructure to justify investing in them for serious development.

So I guess I agree with you.

I started coding in 1986, on those days C was just another language and OS were written in Assembly, PL/I, Pascal, Modula-2 and probably many others we never heard of.

I always used C only when required to do so, hoping a stronger type language would take its place. And jumped into C++ as a better C as soon I discovered the language in 1992, but given its C roots many problems still persist nonetheless.

The problem is that a language to gain critical mass needs a corporation that pushes it into the mainstream, or a framework/library that makes developers want to use the language.