I think people find a language they like- maybe their first language, or one of the first couple- and then it is really hard to be interested in everything else

I think people find a language they like- maybe their first language, or one of the first couple- and then it is really hard to be interested in everything else. If you can't read it right off the bat, it "sucks". This is how I felt about erlang. But the importance of concurrency was so high to me that I forced myself to learn the language, and now I love it. A couple times learning a new language after being annoyed that it isn't like the language you already know, and I think people might recognize that every language has a reason for being....