Well, "cool" tech is very subjective and often based in some sort of tech ideology. Is Golang "cool"? I don't think so, but a lot of people do. HN is flooded w

Well, "cool" tech is very subjective and often based in some sort of tech ideology. Is Golang "cool"? I don't think so, but a lot of people do. HN is flooded with posts like "Show HN: I made a web server in Go/Rust/Erlang". Clap clap, good for you. I find these articles quite worthless but leave them alone because hey, it's not like disk space on HN servers is a particularly limited resource. If some people want to talk about someone else's web server or yet-another-js-framework, that's no problem by me. However, much of this sort of cheerleading is motivated by what can only be called ideology. For example, "Java is uncool and Oracle is bad" + "Rust is elite and Mozilla is cool" is a very common sort of opinion on Hacker News but this is really nothing to do with the technologies themselves. It's more based on a feeling that overtly wanting to make lots of money by owning IP is dirty and immoral, whereas giving it away for free and claiming you're motivated by an inherent love of openess and webbyness is pure and moral. This is really just politics in disguise.