[umanwizard]

> They’re not capable of understanding a brilliant language but we want to use them to build good software. So, the language that we give them has to be easy for them to understand and easy to adopt

How would you phrase this? Thinking programmers are too stupid to understand languages with modern features is just the plain literal meaning of the quote, no?

[packetlost]

It's not about intelligence, it's about not having the experience to appreciate and make good use of "brilliant" language features.