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Why do they keep making new languages
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Sort of... But new languages make use of new tech and compilers usually.
And old languages add features and adapt or rewrite the compiler for new technologies. There’s no inherent advantage to a language being new.
Less technical debt
Less experience in what programmers actually want or need from a language.