[pessimizer]

>learning about when to use them and when not to use them.

Learning never to use them is just as legitimate.

"A place for everything and everything in its place" isn't a law of physics, it's a battle-cry for the obsessive compulsive.

[Uchikoma]

"Learning never to use them is just as legitimate."

Indeed! I would from my experience not use Z80 assembler - though I like it much more than 6502 - and CP/M as an OS for a social media website.

I have the gut feeling though that your comment might be about Java, which might not be warranted. The last company I've worked for makes >$200M in profit a year and will be sold soon for >$1b - based on a Java platform. The next company I worked for was skyrocketing and sold for $200M - based on a Java platform. Both profited from good performance, stability and GC maturity during high periods of growth and load and a good pool of developers during peak hiring times.

But then we might differ in our goals and evaluation criteria, mine is about getting things done to support a business in a sustainable way.