There are also lots of passionate hobby programmers who are passionate about results rather than the journey. I mean, I know a ton of obscure and esoteric lang

There are also lots of passionate hobby programmers who are passionate about results rather than the journey. I mean, I know a ton of obscure and esoteric languages. Do I turn to them, even the cool ones, when I want to implement some idea I have? I'm afraid I often turn to the tried and tested boring languages because of the network effect. Increasingly I just use raw javascript, which is right up there with VB and PHP for unpopularity, just because it makes it damn easy to share the result with others if its in a web-page.