Language popularity is almost exclusively driven by the ability for MBA's to hire cheap, mediocre/bad programmers to slash away at garbage heap codebases in sai

Language popularity is almost exclusively driven by the ability for MBA's to hire cheap, mediocre/bad programmers to slash away at garbage heap codebases in said language, while endlessly billing customers for 'fixes/improvements'. If you have a good team with good tools, you have less billing to do and maybe not enough people to justify convoluted management structures and practices. Good languages are fundamentally at odds with how most software companies do business. They don't want to train people, they don't want to do rewrites, and they definitely don't want to hire people who can change jobs at the drop of a hat (highly skilled persons). They want the bare minimum of all of that, and maximum billings.