You know, the google thing. Personally I'm a bit excited for a compiled python-like C language. It's going to take for fucking ever for it to become useful, though, especially with google's slow and steady attitude. I could see it catching on though kind of like python did.
Google just wanted something they could sell to the ENTERPRISE, and use themselves. Having cool features(for example 'real macros') that programmers can (ab)use to write code much more productively is not in their interest as they still need the average joe programmer to be able to understand code written by others, and they need to be able to replace programmers like cog pieces. If you want better languages, just pick what you like from the good ones that already exist, and USE IT, regardless if some large corporation likes it or not. It may mean you won't get to write code in such languages when hired by such corporations, but that's not all there is to programming.