1. Programming language gets trendy
2. Investors require this language
3. Enterprise demand goes up
4. Salaries for devs of language goes up
5. More devs learn the language
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6. Investors ask for ROI
7. Salaries go down
8. Hey! This new language pays more, you should learn it. GOTO 1.

#TheCycleOfLife well the #TheCycleOfCapital tbh

@santiago I guess the actual difference in the short term should come at pt. 6. A good language should deliver better productivity, a banal example could be languages with garbage collection. Dynamic typing also gave this in the short term, but then we found out that in the long term, it leads to poor maintainability. Then there are many more recent examples.
@santiago I'm just waiting for Turing language to come back, I'll be able to pull in the big bucks then!!!