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Thank You, Which is basically my economic theory of PL that I have been trying to explain across to many people.

An ecosystem forces you to program in a language, as long as the ecosystem grows in market value, it will require more developers, more people learning it and more jobs for it. A positive growing circle, and once it reaches a certain threshold it should become self sustainable, there will be interest from many parties to try and improve on it.

On the other hand, if a languages ecosystem does not reach that threshold, there will be doubt if new project should be built on it, there will be less opening for developers, less in demand means people are not learning it, market wants experience dev but experience dev would have moved on to other ecosystem. Lack of hireable Devs meant PM should choose something else that makes hiring easier. And the ecosystem shrink, what we call a languages is dying. It really isn't dying, it should be accurately described as shrinking. The Negative circle.

And in most cases languages lives on in other form. People call Ruby as Matz's Lisp.