The Missing Programming Language - Why There's No S-Tier Language (Yet)

In this video we discuss the missing programming language. What I mean by an S-Tier language, why there is no current S-tier language, and the languages that come close.

Original blog post with all links: https://hamy.xyz/blog/2026-01_missing-programming-language

Chapters

00:00 - Intro
00:40 - Programming Language Wish List
03:00 - My Definition of Expressive Types
07:05 - The Programming Language Landscape
09:45 - C# 
12:50 - Kotlin
14:20 - TypeScript
17:10 - Go
18:40 - Rust
20:45 - Swift
21:55 - Java
23:45 - PHP
24:55 - F# 
27:15 - Python
29:05 - Ruby
30:10 - C/C++ 
31:00 - Gleam
32:10 - Lua
32:50 - Elixir
33:40 - Zig
34:25 - Why does this Gap exist? 
39:50 - Is there hope for an S-Tier language?

Links:

- My 2025 Programming Language Tier List - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEIvl2Nuneg
- The Programming Language Death Spiral - How Small Languages Die in the Age of AI - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2Gf04W_ff8

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