I don't think this is a bad thing but it's a funny consequence that to become mainstream you have to (1) announce a cool new feature that isn't in other languages (2) eventually accept the feature is actually pretty niche and your average developer won't get it (3) sand off the weird features to make another "C but slightly better/different"
Immutability is the actual core and power of Earlang
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