Perhaps, but at the end of the day, people need to eat; and programming languages and their ecosystems apparently need a serious effort and even corporate suppo

Perhaps, but at the end of the day, people need to eat; and programming languages and their ecosystems apparently need a serious effort and even corporate support to make sure they don't hobble behind the times at risk to become irrelevant. I used to code a lot in Perl5, and I thought it was fun in a more creative way than languages like Python; but it's a hard sell this days. I mostly code in the Go language nowadays, which is decisively less fun and creative in itself, but it brings other paradigms like interconnecting services that then allow you to be creative in a different way than the "poetry" of the language itself.