[meredydd]

There's also an age effect. If you're maintaining a Delphi or VB or PHP codebase now, you're probably working on an older system, which means you spend a lot of time stepping on rakes that someone left in the code ten years ago. If you're writing something in Elm, it can't be more than a couple of years old, and you're probably still in the green-field honeymoon period.

This emotional response probably transfers onto the languages themselves, which means any language in decline will naturally attract resentment.