Human nature though. When a topic is extremely complicated, or there’s some kind of power to be gained, we resort to tribalism. Both are present in software. W

Human nature though. When a topic is extremely complicated, or there’s some kind of power to be gained, we resort to tribalism. Both are present in software. We’ve made societal progress on a lot of things, but not so much on this one. For me, I always try and be conscious of that, and I tell coworkers when something that I’m suggesting is just preference over objective fact. For example, I prefer Ruby as a scripting language. My first job used it for various automations, and I got used to it. It has absolutely no value over Python as a scripting language for example. It’s just my preference.