My take away here is that it only pays to be a programming language dilettante if you are actually building a programming language, especially if it's a dedicat

My take away here is that it only pays to be a programming language dilettante if you are actually building a programming language, especially if it's a dedicated language for a new platform. Otherwise, you're mostly going to be subject to whatever's already mostly in use on your platform of choice, up to minor tweaks in that language over time.