I see this cycle where simplified "scripting" languages for "non-programmers" never last.<p>See: BASIC, perl, php, 4GL languages, etc.<p>The cycle goes like this:<p>1. A new simplified language for non-programmers is created<p>2. Non-programmers jump on board and get as far as they can...<p>3. Now they need just a little bit more from the language, so it is added (for perl, that was perl5 with OO, use strict, etc, for php, also the OO stuff when they turned it into java, for python, it's python3)<p>4. The non-programmers have become programmers, and the language has become a bit of a mess, so former non-programmers jump to C++ or Java or Clojure, and next generation of non-programmers don't like the look of the now complicated mess of a language, so back to step 1.<p>I guess it also doesn't help that a lot of these non-programmer languages are tightly coupled with some particular use case, like server side web apps for php, or "data science" for php, once that goes away, there isn't much of a general-purpose language left.<p>Anyway, yes, the appeal of C++, rust, Java, etc is definitely more stable over time - nobody learns those because they are simple, and drops them when it turns out not to be the case.