Please ELI5, I lost track. I used to learn a bit of C and a bit of Python a few years ago but never really went deeper into programming. And now suddenly it seems that a host of new programming languages have appeared and that stuff that used to work fine in whatever old language it was in is now rewritten in a new language.
How do languages like Golang and Rust differ from older languages (these two have probably been around a while but for me they feel 'new')? Why are we coming up with new languages all the time? Besides those two, what other languages are there worth knowing about? Is it worth learning them? Are they going to come up with yet another one next week? (I know, many questions, an invitation to infodump I guess ...)
EDIT: A deep reaching, long and detailed history of some programming languages, for the future passerby:
But if a language makes a particular thing easy, it also forces you to adopt a certain premise and accept the way the language solves that particular problem. This also limits you.
Every new language wants you to accept a new premise.
I've got a friend who rewrote parts of the C++ standard lib to optimize it for his purposes. I guess an STL isn't the same as a language, but my friend's efforts is maybe a small version of people recreating a new language to solve a problem.