That's true, choice of language does attract certain type of developers. At one time in the past, it seemed that it was for the better goods. But lately, it isn

That's true, choice of language does attract certain type of developers. At one time in the past, it seemed that it was for the better goods. But lately, it isn't. Choice of language is used as a recruiting/promotion practice that may not be for the good of the business: they tend to attract people who jump between companies quickly as soon as they found another "cool" technology. Let's be very very very honest here. Geeks like to try the latest coolest cutting edge. Don't forget to add the allure of working at the coolest hottest startup in Silicon Valley (or the "chance" to be able work, given that you mastered a specific technology) for street-cred and if they're lucky, IPO or big $$$. How many times you see/hear/meet people switching jobs just because they don't want to be perceived as "behind the time"? (When in reality Google, Microsoft, are still moving forward with old-school technology). Personally, I felt that there's Fire and Motion (http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000339.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000339.html) going on in the so-called "hacker/startup" community. At the end of the day, there are some developers becoming the victim of Fire and Motion being executed by a small group of alpha-nerds that write the initial code in their preferred cutting edge technology and left the company for another cutting edge green-field software development, leaving the "legacy 2 years old code-base filled with hacks" to the next group of developers that try to catch up the boat. OK, enough ranting. Now, can we move on from the whole programming language war conversation?