I agree with this - I don't think there's any way to define "boring" that doesn't fall apart after examination. Is it age? Lisp (whichever flavour you like) has

I agree with this - I don't think there's any way to define "boring" that doesn't fall apart after examination. Is it age? Lisp (whichever flavour you like) has been around forever and I'd wager very few consider it boring, likewise for Haskell and the MLs. Ecosystem? ditto. Predictability? The MLs are probably better here than C++, as you mention. Real world usage? Gee, we're talking about this on a website written in a Lisp! It seems to me that "boring" is an reverse-pejorative for "C/C++/Java" - which I think is ridiculous, because even in 2015 Ruby and Python should've assumed "boring" status by all means, and the author even sort of acknowledges this! I understand the word as used in "Use Boring Tech" has a certain instinctive resonance to most people, but in all usages I think we should replace it with familiar. What's familiar varies from person to person, team to team, and also doesn't serve as a pejorative to anything else. Pick what you're used to if the goal isn't to experiment.