From your comments, it's clear that you are not happy with the state of programming languages as it stands.
You mentioned that the current languages lack safe meta-definition and also that the next generation of languages should make us think better.
Apart from the above, could you mention more properties or features of programming languages, at a high level of course, that you consider should be part of the next generation of languages?
Accepting poor security practices from the Linux mint developers cannot be justified just because you are not paying anything.
Open source projects need to be held to the very highest security standards.
How these security breaches are handled today set a precedent for how such security breaches are handled in the future. So it's a good idea to learn and improve from such security breaches and set a positive precedent.
From your comments, it's clear that you are not happy with the state of programming languages as it stands.
You mentioned that the current languages lack safe meta-definition and also that the next generation of languages should make us think better.
Apart from the above, could you mention more properties or features of programming languages, at a high level of course, that you consider should be part of the next generation of languages?