Everyone wants to make developer tools for street cred, and the github 'social coding' culture is just a vehicle for self promotion. I agree that in the blogs a

Everyone wants to make developer tools for street cred, and the github 'social coding' culture is just a vehicle for self promotion. I agree that in the blogs and conferences there's not enough focus on solving business issues, but people should care about languages, because it also is a business issue as others have pointed out. An example: if I worked in a AAA game studio and I decided to write a critical feature in haskell and then quit, will my boss and coworkers care? Maintainability of code, documentation quality and testing are not prioritized enough in the community and conferences which is why i feel there is so much churn, and we get a new programming language every second friday. ie the new tools are the symptom, not the cause of the problem.