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I came to this conclusion as well.

Ecosystem > language awesomeness

Provided that one ecosystem is huge (e.g. Python) and the other one small.

With that said, learning to write production code in a small language allows for certain better developments in mindset (e.g. Stack Overflow? Forget about it) and better in the quirks of the language, which you will see (to a lesser extent) in other languages.