The designer/engineer identity and personality disconnects are definitely a big part of the story of Javascript in the last five years. SF (design) took over a

The designer/engineer identity and personality disconnects are definitely a big part of the story of Javascript in the last five years. SF (design) took over as the bleeding edge when Javascript finally burst on the scene, and Palo Alto (engineering) faded. The interesting thing to me is the amount of identitarian-style thinking that I see around the arguments in technology (macs, linux, javascript, etc.) where it is obvious that in-group/out-group factors nearly completely dominate discussions, rather than technical issues and trade offs.