Maybe its boringness might be of value to some, as it has reached steady state, but I believe that if you are going to be where the puck is going to be, you nee

Maybe its boringness might be of value to some, as it has reached steady state, but I believe that if you are going to be where the puck is going to be, you need to consider languages other than Python. I am betting on JS and Clojure. I remember reading the announcements on Usenet for early versions of Python over two decades ago. I wasn't excited about it then because I was so tied up in learning The Next Big Thing and Python, even when it was brand spanking new, never screamed sexy. At some point though, I stopped chasing The Next Big Thing because I needed to actually get stuff done in such a way that didn't involve me or another senior engineer maintaining it forever. Nearly 15 years after I read the first announcement of Python, I actually started to use it in earnest and I liked it. At some point in one's programming career, one starts to become practical and Python, if anything, is a practical language. I sometimes think the reason Python doesn't have the zealotry in its community like other languages is because it attracts such practical people that when faced with a problem that would be easier solved in another language, will simply use the other language.