I think that in today's technology world, if you really care about the technologies you are using, they are plenty of positions with reasonably good languages,

I think that in today's technology world, if you really care about the technologies you are using, they are plenty of positions with reasonably good languages, where tools are not imposed because you're working on a web product. I use python professionnally, but there are a lot of ruby openings to, some scala and clojure now, and even C# is really far from being a bad language. I do hate to program in Java, but there is plenty of room in the tech world to let me not program any line of Java, and let that to people who like it, or simply don't mind. So my question is i guess, if you are indeed a good programmer, and hate your tools, what stops you from learning one of the "bearable" languages that are plenty used in the industry today, and find a job where you can use it ?