I would recommend this video to anyone who is interested in programming languages. Note that Jon gets very technical, especially about memory, so you need to know about how RAII works. He talks about the need for a new PL for games, how modern languages (of 8 years ago) are not good enough, and how a new language could be designed, going further than just syntactic sugar stuff.

I should also note that I could understand the concerns of this video after I learned Rust. That made me realize how much I learned about serious and exciting concepts about programming languages (and how computers work) while learning Rust.