you mean easier to hire developers in, provides higher levels of abstraction, etc. then modern programming languages are generally better That’s a subtle disti

you mean easier to hire developers in, provides higher levels of abstraction, etc. then modern programming languages are generally better That’s a subtle distinction, in JavaScript a high level of abstraction means hiding the details of the DOM and how the interface works, whereas in COBOL or FORTRAN what you’re really abstracting is the problem domain itself. Availability of programmers is part driven by the market but largely by programmers themselves who try to avoid mature and established technologies and chase the hottest new trend. So it’s true what you say, but it doesn’t happen because it has to but because people want it to.