Yep, that's what I meant, thank you.

It breaks my heart seeing e.g. Python and JS still being the same terrible monstrosities that they always were, and what's even worse is all the post-hoc rationalization that people do to justify their favorite language. Instead of, you know, just say "yeah it's bad that we don't have that, choose another language if it bothers you" but no, it has to be BS like "almost everyone uses Python, have you considered that you might be wrong?". The good old appeal to popularity and tradition, and one of the well-documented logical fallacies that's being done every day and every hour. But hey, who's counting, right.

I wish that our work area -- the programming -- had more balls. More courage. "Alright guys, sum types are unequivocally better than having NULL, let's start changing our language" probably followed by an announcement "Sorry we couldn't fit sum types in Python, we're forking the language with a small list of incompatibilities and a tool to rewrite your old Python to the new one, please migrate". Or something along the lines.

But no, of course not. Let's pretend everything is okay. :/