Today the number of people under 50 who'll reach for perl or raku or who cares what it's called as their first choice of tool for anything new is zero. In practice Perl is an esolang now.

Torvalds' position is that contributing to the kernel should be _more_ difficult for everyone else, but, through LLM usage, easier for existing kernel developers.

Ted Tso's adamant position that "you can't make us learn Rust" is the same insularity.

If the kernel was a country, we'd recognize this.