Off the top of my head: Benefits: - Working in a dead ecosystem reduces the risk of bleeding-edge fomo (see web-dev) - Prior generation tooling has fewer layer

Off the top of my head: Benefits: - Working in a dead ecosystem reduces the risk of bleeding-edge fomo (see web-dev) - Prior generation tooling has fewer layers of abstraction - Imperative paradigm easier to groc than, eg, OO perspective Costs: - Less able to exploit current trending topics - Teenagers are very fashion conscious - they may reject the 'dated' language as irrelevant Could you tell me more about why you like this?