I'm in a similar-ish boat. I enjoy most languages that I learn... for a while. Once the excitement wears off, though, I start to see the flaws or inconsistencie

I'm in a similar-ish boat. I enjoy most languages that I learn... for a while. Once the excitement wears off, though, I start to see the flaws or inconsistencies. And, eventually, the flaws are the only things I notice anymore. Of course, that's as much a criticism of my own attitude as it is of any particular programming language. But, in my defense, I think that we truly haven't "solved" the problem of software development. Ideally we'd need languages that make it easy to describe our human intent, make it hard to make mistakes, and are resource-efficient. There is no such language yet. I used to also love C++ and Java. I liked the feeling of control that C++ gave me- believe it or not, I thought that writing 5 constructors for a class/struct was somehow good... It would be hard for me to even say I have a "favorite" language today. The language I hate the least is probably Rust, but even that has its warts, weaknesses, and inconsistencies. I used to like Swift almost as much until they kept tacking on features that are nothing at all like the core of the language- now I kind of hate Swift. I enjoy Kotlin for about 30 minutes at a time until I bump into one of its many design inconsistencies or incompatible/incomplete features. I did enjoy Clojure even though I'm not a huge fan of non-static typing. It at least has a consistent vision and is clearly implemented with real engineering (like using persistent data structures and immutable-first designs, as opposed to most other languages that just tack on random pieces of "FP" and say "Who cares if you make umpteen short-lived, heap-allocated, copies of that array? Computers are fast!" Ugh...).