[kbenson]

If that was a useful argument for the future we'd all still be using Perl.

I mean, I still write a lot of Perl, but everyone else would be too.

[Zababa]

And if this wasn't a useful argument many more people would use OCaml, Crystal, D, etc ; and every new language wouldn't be met with "I like it but it doesn't have the libraries I need so I'll keep writing Java".