This was an issue way before ChatGPT, because older languages have more online resources, more experienced developers, more libraries, and are more battle-teste

This was an issue way before ChatGPT, because older languages have more online resources, more experienced developers, more libraries, and are more battle-tested and hardened. It’s why JavaScript and FORTRAN (!) are still alive today, and you rarely hear about new languages gaining mass adoption. The newest “production” languages today (Dart, Go, Rust, Swift, Kotlin) are all not actually new (some started being developed 10+ years ago), not as widely-used as their replacements (React, C, C++, Objective-C in Apple’s macOS and iOS, and Java), and this is despite being spearheaded by huge companies (Google, Mozilla, Apple, JetBrains) and a passionate community. Still, the # of software devs is huge and increasing, and there are plenty of new indie projects made by people who are passionate about new languages and/or want to do things more fun and possibly faster rather than more reliable. Take Zig, a very early language which competes directly with Rust, C, D, Go, and more; but there are real projects being developed with Zig (e.g. Bun). These projects and the developers using niche languages are growing a community which others can use in the future, and writing code which an LLM can use; and while the communities aren’t growing nearly as fast as ones of larger languages, there’s probably an exponential dropoff of community/code growth + usability growth. More importantly, even if these niche languages never become popular (more likely than not), they’ll still be used by a passionate group who make projects 2x slower (since they have less resources/LLMs), but would otherwise be unmotivated and not make anything at all.