This makes sense to me, as a dev from India who's currently learning a variety of technologies. I could never afford college, so I took it upon myself to learn

This makes sense to me, as a dev from India who's currently learning a variety of technologies. I could never afford college, so I took it upon myself to learn whatever I wanted from the Internet. It is astounding how rich the resources for CS are, if you know where to look on the web. Going back to the topic at hand, I often find myself being defensive and supportive of stacks I use and learnt about. When I dig deeper, I find myself at a lack of words, regarding why I like React or Python. It mostly boils down to "I like x because I know x". I often don't have reasons backed by technical knowledge. Many times I've not given a certain language/stack a chance just because I heard/read one guy write something negative about it online. I see my error and will try not to be blindly biased.