Semicolon wars

 Leaving your language is not a thing most people do, even if you travel or live in other country different from the one you were born you tend to still speak your language make friends with people who think like you and speak like you,i think this extends to programming languages, abandoning all that is hard and I would argue has no point, the love and the knowledge of a language in my opinion does not hinder your ability to learn or even love a new one, I would think it complements you, it makes it easier to do something you are too lazy to do in your native language, I like the diversity at the end of the day there are languages in which most of us can coincide, whit most of the people you know there is a language you share. 

Most of the languages are pretty niche, born from someone who though something could be easier if it was made a certain way and most of the time they fulfill the purpose they were made for, there is no real problem at he end of the day the languages adapt to the needs of the people, the more people need something the more popular a language becomes if just a few need it it would be hard to make people change their ways for something comparable or worse to what they already have, if you see it like this is the diversification is quite natural and the growth of a language will not depend in the most part to how much you preach it, instead it will depend in what the people need the most at the time, and the less the have to abandon their old ways the better, so most of the times the older will win while it remains adaptable to the people needs.


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