What I wish would die is discussions of the death of languages. It's as useful as classifying people as good and bad athletes. Everyone is better or worse at so

What I wish would die is discussions of the death of languages. It's as useful as classifying people as good and bad athletes. Everyone is better or worse at some sports, and the threshold for switching from good to bad is purely arbitrary. It's better to have discussions with substance. "Perl job advertisements are down 34% in the last five years" might be useful. "Perl lacks libraries to do [task]" might be useful. "Perl is dying" isn't.