I felt the same when I used Python to rewrite some broken/incompatible C code. It didn't save on performance, but it did reignite that hacker mindset with a clear to write language. I show students my Flask sets up and I can see the light bulbs firing off in their brains.

The older languages may be artifacts of our era of code, but I'm excited to see what the next wave of documented prompting vibe coding will bring.

I might finally understand what the heck my students' code is doing HA!