Scott Locklin on the wisdom of rules 6 and 17

One of the valuable things about popular but boring languages is that the code has been traversed many times, and routine stuff you’re likely to use in production is probably well debugged… The other benefit to boring languages is people concentrate on the problem, rather than the interesting complexities of the language itself.

https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2021/01/08/woo-for-its-own-sake/