The one thing I'll say here is age of the language really is and always has been a superficial argument; it's only six years apart from Python, and it's far less controversial of a language choice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Python .

Either way, it's hard not to draw parallels between all the drama in US politics and the arguments about language choice sometimes; it feels like both sides lack respect for the other, and it makes things unnecessarily tense.