I am not a professional developer so take my opinion with a grain of salt. I do not believe that language vs language or why is language X bad entirely useful.

I am not a professional developer so take my opinion with a grain of salt. I do not believe that language vs language or why is language X bad entirely useful. Those arguments are usually pitting downstream effects against one another. Rather I believe that a language is as good as its founding development community in terms of cooperation, incitement of creativity, inclusiveness, supporting new developers both hobbyists and professional alike and things along this line. I believe those are foundational principals and if those are lacking everything else will be weak and only get weaker with time. Politics, cliques, divisive or elitist behavior will creep in and the rest become downstream artifacts. I witnessed some of this amongst the Perl Monks and it was not surprising that their community stagnated and became divided. This is just my opinion however and I don't code for a living, just for fun. I still write Perl code for my own hobbies.