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I mean this looks awesome and all but I feel like constantly developing/learning new languages and frameworks has been such a giant waste of resources in our community in general. I hope things stabilize in the future. I've got 15 professional years under my belt at this point and I don't feel like an expert in anything.

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I think the only reason why there was a temporary "language bottleneck" in the late 90s and early 2000s was that CPUs got too complex around that time to deal with the resulting code generation complexities in a "homebrew compiler". LLVM and later projects like Cranelift changed that, and now it's possible again for individuals and small teams to create new languages which have competitive performance. In my book that's great, competition and experimentation is always a good thing for progress (even when it means there's also many more hobby projects that won't move the needle).

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