>> I suspect it's because we reached the end of the low-hanging fruit in 
>> language design which also has a high payoff.  
> 
> I disagree. I can think of a number of persistent problems with large 
> code bases that aren't solved by todays languages or libraries.

Such as?

And anyway, I think he's only saying that the stuff that's "easy" to fix 
has already been fixed, leaving only the less easy stuff.

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