I heartily agree with your points and want to add: programmers want to automate tedious, repetitive, manual work so that we can spend our time in a more pleasan

I heartily agree with your points and want to add: programmers want to automate tedious, repetitive, manual work so that we can spend our time in a more pleasant way solving more interesting puzzles. @tools: just in the WebDev world. I am still battling to start developing web apps, coming from a java/C# now mostly F# world where we can actually debug effortlessly, use static typing (or the superior type inference in the case of F#) and so on