No language solves all problems obviously, but clearly some are better than others in nthat regard. I have no experience in Rust but many years with Perl and Java (and others). Perl in the hands of a small, very experienced team had the highest productivity and quality I have seen - but I would not want use Perl in a project with higher developer churn and lots of inexperienced coders.

This has been my experience as well.

I think that's why "medium powered" languages such as Python and Java tend to get the widest adoption over time. They are less expressive but also have fewer gotchas, and in a team of 100s or 1000s of good-but-not-stellar developers who come and go, they end up being the least painful for the organization.

> all languages are capable of producing maintainable software

Once you add that, you understand what the original poster actually meant.

Examples of such languages are Go and Python: both to some extent enforce code formatting - Python with indentation being part of the syntax, Go with gofmt being almost universally used tool. Both try to maintain one preferred way to do things - opposite to "There's more than one way to do it" in Perl.