I'm not commenting on the analogy, my comment was specifically the part i quoted since it sounded to me like the poster assumed it was how "boring tech advocate

I'm not commenting on the analogy, my comment was specifically the part i quoted since it sounded to me like the poster assumed it was how "boring tech advocates" would react: i confirmed that this is exactly how they reacted. Outside of that i sit on the fence of "it depends" with a bias towards conservatism. After all I do mostly write desktop software in C and (Free) Pascal, i do not care about web development at all, i see smartphones as a neat distraction but overall having done more harm than good to the stuff i like (desktop software and UX, primarily) and of all the new languages popping up here and there i find Go the most interesting (i'd also have an interest towards D but Free Pascal provides pretty much everything i'd need from D outside of the crazy metaprogramming, which i'm not sure it is a good thing in the long term). Ok, actually i might sit a bit further towards conservatism than i initially thought :-P.