41-42 years here. My experience was right from the beginning in designing new products so for me programming languages were just tools. After a while it was not

41-42 years here. My experience was right from the beginning in designing new products so for me programming languages were just tools. After a while it was not a problem for me to start a project in completely new language and get the shit done without much fuzz. Most of the general-purpose languages are more or less the same and so are the libraries. Some are great. Some are not that much. What I see now is that programmers are often concerned with not what they deliver but how – I’ll do anything as long as it is in A/B/C. Basically means substitute goals. I find it not very healthy. There are some exotic languages of course which could make my brain melt but since I do not need any for my projects/products I would not care.