> we wanted Delphi and got Haskell instead

Please elaborate.

> However note the same phenomen happening with other languages, as soon as you have a team being paid to develop a language, their job depends on adding features in every single release.

Users also request those features. You said yourself that programming languages are products. In that sense, people are always evaluating them through the lenses of utility (the economics concept), and if they have to pick between two languages, with similar capabilities, they will pick up the one that maximises that utility.

This to weird design decisions getting inserted into the fabric as a consequence (the current state of C++ comes to mind). And given developers are too opinionated about everything, we get politics as a side effect.

I am not sure if the average executive is dumb or just shortsighted. Imagine making decisions based solely on the optics of the Pareto principle when corporate history itself says that is fraught with risk.

Bean Counter Tim is going to drive Apple into the ground before he does anything useful. Just look at the current state of the ecosystem when it comes to UI/UX and software stability.

> A very minor nit: Julia is a compiled language

Caught. Should have just listed the usual suspects (C, C++, maybe Rust nowadays?).

> and the best 2 solutions were in Julia. C++ was a close third, and Rust after that.

Awesome. Which type of problem was this, if you can share?

Now that the money is gone

What are we supposed to do?

After all that we've been through

When everything that felt so right is wrong

Now that the money is gone (money is gone)