I'm half convinced by your argument, but not entirely. There's a lot of unnecessary pain caused by programming languages that moving the industry forward could

I'm half convinced by your argument, but not entirely. There's a lot of unnecessary pain caused by programming languages that moving the industry forward could prevent. The goal is a useful one, I'm curious about the efficacy. Does language advocacy work? Does talking about this stuff change anything, or are we better off if pioneers just build cool things with a new language and lead by example? Have there been cases in the past where advocacy absent a project has created a community around a language?