> They should be saying they are interested in solving optimization problems, image quality search problems, etc. They are. OP has been spending 30 years not b

> They should be saying they are interested in solving optimization problems, image quality search problems, etc. They are. OP has been spending 30 years not being paid to use the tools he wants. > but that applies to every language barring joke ones Some languages are far more effective for a domain than others. To stretch it further than Haskell, there's a reason why Verilog is used in hardware over something like C. It would be enormously frustrating to work against my tool to get something done. Programmers who focus on "getting stuff done" in these situations are succeeding despite their tools, which is commendable, but we should still push to using better tools. > interested in the tool through which the problem is solved not the domain itself Many factors play into why someone works at a company, whether it's cost-effective to use a certain tool, whether a tool is trendy, whether the candidate is passionate about the domain, or whether the candidate is passionate about the tooling. A lot of people aren't passionate about the domain of adtech, for example, unlike self-driving cars, but they work in these areas because they like the practice of engineering.