While true, I feel the pace of evolution is too fast at the moment.

I am involved in scientific programming, and it's getting kind of crazy. This is a domain where programming is purely utilitarian, and what you are programming is more important. Unfortunately, new languages are driven by people who love programming for the sake of programming, and are often employed in big corporations that can absorb the financial cost of ecosystem duplication and fragmentation.

The time scientists spend on 'infrastructure' is increasing, and I'm not sure that's always a good thing. (Some is good, of course).