Programmers badmouth everything, because the state of programming languages is a horrifying trash fire and these things deserve to be badmouthed, in the hope th

Programmers badmouth everything, because the state of programming languages is a horrifying trash fire and these things deserve to be badmouthed, in the hope that the same mistakes won't be made next time somebody builds a similar system. In other words, if somebody says "stop badmouthing [crappy tool]", it doesn't just mean they need a thicker skin, but that they value their arbitrary emotional connection to the tool over the ability for the world to improve. They would rather have a crappy system that nobody talks about than a good system.