People's allegiances are tribal, and this kind of juvenile gatekeeping is probably only prevalent among teenagers and young college students. I've never identi

People's allegiances are tribal, and this kind of juvenile gatekeeping is probably only prevalent among teenagers and young college students. I've never identified with a particular technology so strongly as to feel attacked when its flaws are pointed out, and vice versa, I have never felt the need to attack anyone personally based on the technologies they use. Some might be better for some tasks but not others, and that's the only thing that matters. Experience shows that people who lack broad knowledge of several programming languages tend to identify as "language X developers" instead of developers as such. This enhances tribalism and creates pointless language wars. Any time somebody says that some particular language is the best choice for everything, or some other language is never the best choice for anything, they're just inexperienced and are trying to mask it with fake confidence. Except for Java of course, it's the worst.