I feel like people get what makes for the best programming language wrong in the same way they get the "fittest" wrong with darwinian selection of "survival of

I feel like people get what makes for the best programming language wrong in the same way they get the "fittest" wrong with darwinian selection of "survival of the fittest". It's not necessarily the prettiest (although that can help) or the fastest, or some subjective assessment of the best. It's what survives. Sometimes that's a stallion, other times it's a dung beetle but both are the best at what they do and if you put it in the wrong environment they die. Java's just doing what it does and it has survived where others have died.