Instead now, you throw everything away when moving to a new language ecosystem. Would love to see parts of languages become aligned in the same manner that CPUs did, so some constructs become portable and compatible between languages.
Great point. But some newer languages do keep compatibility, with Java (Scala, Groovy, Kotlin, Clojure) and .Net (C#, F#, Visual Basic, Powershell) “platforms” being an example, but also with system languages that normally have some simple (no binding required) ABI compatibility with C , like D, Zig and Nim I think.
The newest attempt seems to be revolving around WASM, which should make language interoperability across many languages possible if they finally get the Components Model (I think that’s what they are calling it) ready.
Today, with several of those languages, we really don't care from a code point of view if the deployment target is Linux or Windows, we know it will work the same. That's an achievement.
