The best thing about this is you can put your gas powered generator in the bed to recharge. :)

Go and Python, keeping an eye on Nim and V

lower volume micro services, csv generation, low volume web APIs, and just about everything that is not performance critical, mostly because of the ease of programming and you can find a library for just about anything.

Microsoft has spent a lot of time and effort putting themselves in the this position (closed source, ignoring and even shunning open source, OEM agreements that border on predatory, and so on...)

Unfortunately I believe the only thing that will change opinions are a considerable amount of time and effort in the other direction.