Any time I see a new language being promoted, what I really need to see is proof why I should use it. Not a list of features, not Hello World.

I wish there were an ISO-standard specification of about 10 non-trivial programming problems, each with a best-of-show implementation in all the popular languages, so a newly proposed language could demo why their 10 solutions might be considered better than other languages. For example:

  1. A compiler for a small language.
  2. A text editor.
  3. An assembler.
  4. A rendering engine for a subset of HTML.
  5. A regex processor.
  6. A ray tracer.
  7. An online store.
  8. A video editor.
  9. A game.
  10. A payroll system.

If I could see Beef's solution to those 10 problems, side-by-side with other languages' solutions, that might compel me to seriously consider Beef.