BTW, that's not to say we don't use other languages here. I have personally worked with everything from multiple assembly languages through Forth, C, C++, Visu

BTW, that's not to say we don't use other languages here. I have personally worked with everything from multiple assembly languages through Forth, C, C++, Visual Basic, LISP, APL, JS, Objective-C, PHP, Python, MicroPython and who knows what else. We just haven't turned any of the above into a religious belief. In that context, with that level of experience, from consumer to aerospace, time and time again I find myself making the same observation about C and C++ being more than adequate for just-about everything. We are reinventing the wheel to allow for less capable, less knowledgeable software developers (or both).