Regarding the identity thing: programmers like collective nouns. What do you call a bunch of google employees? Googlers (and they self-identify with that label

Regarding the identity thing: programmers like collective nouns. What do you call a bunch of google employees? Googlers (and they self-identify with that label). The same thing goes for a bunch of companies. What do you call the people at a go meetup? Gophers. Ruby meetup? Rubyists. There's a bunch of collective nouns. In the software community, they particularly pop up around companies we belong to, and programming languages we use. It's about 50/50 with programming languages really. A bunch of C programmers isn't a "Unit of Eunuchs", but a bunch of python programmers are a "Plethora of Pythonists". Rust programmers are a "Corrosion of Rustaceans, but java programmers aren't an "Orientation of Objects". Collective nouns are somewhat random, but I assure you that when the programming language name makes it easy to create them, they will be created. Ballerina makes it very easy any of a number of collective nouns to form, and they totally would if the language took off.