[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.