[memexy]

> Would you pledge to switch to programming languages if enough of the industry agreed to do the same? If so, for which languages might you? Is this worth thinking about more?

What research have you done on this matter other than this post? Is there a written record of you thinking about the trade offs in a longer format?

> Is this worth thinking about more?

No one can tell you what's worth thinking about. You'll have to decide that for yourself by doing the actual research and then presenting your results for discussion. Other than your questions I didn't see any actual research or summaries of research that would be useful for a discussion.

[EvanWard97]

I didn't realize this was Nature, my bad.

And of course I am the one who decides for myself if anything is worth thinking about more. I was simply trying to elicit the sort of information which would be relevant to this decision such as, "Here's a bit of evidence you might not be aware of that suggest this is more intractable than you may think. Also, considering the existentially pressing X and Y risks on the horizon, which better programmer productivity presumably wouldn't help, you may want to consider that your comparative advantage may be A or B."

[memexy]

Sounds like you already know what questions you want answers to but didn't actually put them in your prompt and made it much more open ended than necessary.

Personally I think language wars are silly. I enjoy learning new languages and the more of them there are the better so I will not be making any pledges that involve standardizing on a specific language or set of languages.