From this HN thread

For me, the ultimate modern language would look something like Smalltalkish syntax and IDE, with Elixir/Erlang like execution semantics, but retaining a strong object/class declaration story (instead of let’s pretend dictionaries are structures), and a namespace story somewhat akin to Python (but without the shadow binding behavior), and VM extensibility story similar to Smalltalk\X (unlike other Smalltalks which always ran into a when you got to the “performance” parts, Smalltalk\X just supported inline C extensions, so you could just optimize right in place, no JNI/FFI two worlds nonsense). And a world where delivery vendors (browsers, handhelds, etc) had an incentive to simplify program development instead of maintain status quos.