> Why should I waste my energy on learning a new language, especially when it can fade into obscurity and the output is going to be the same anyway? I used tha

> Why should I waste my energy on learning a new language, especially when it can fade into obscurity and the output is going to be the same anyway? I used that reasoning to keep writing perl when python suddenly seemed everywhere and over-hyped. To be honest, I probably should have just taken the time to learn python sooner. I haven't abandoned perl, and I doubt I ever will, but it would have saved me some time/trouble to have picked up python earlier since it wasn't the fad I assumed it was. Today, I assume Rust is just a fad so I'm tempted to avoid the same mistake and pick that up too. Haven't bothered yet though.