A fun fact - Java is over 23 years old. Don't know if anyone would call Java "new" anymore.

It's actually almost the same amount of time C-to-Java as Java-to-now.

And same amount of time Cobol-to-C?

C started in 1972 so no. Cobol is close but was only 13 years between it's appearance and C.

Like just like stegosaurus and t-rex

Just like a fancy new javascript framework that get propped up by big companies. Can't have experienced developers if the framework is brand new!

In all seriousness, I think there’s a ton of waste involving languages - each language introduces its own package manager, doesn’t interop with other languages meaning you have to rewrite python’s requests library in #newlanguage2019 etc