DeVault: Announcing the Hare programming language

Optimizing for a simpler language and implementation makes sense when your audience is mostly the people working on the language and implementation. It makes less sense when your audience is mainly people developing in the language, and even less sense when you also consider users of software developed in the language.

Language simplicity is good for developers, of course, but absence of memory corruption and data races provides another kind of simplicity. (And I think Rust is relatively free of the kind of "accidental" complexity that C and C++ are full of.)