> geeks think they are rational beings, while they are completely influenced by buzz, marketing, and their emotions. Also geeks are influenced by whatever tool

> geeks think they are rational beings, while they are completely influenced by buzz, marketing, and their emotions. Also geeks are influenced by whatever tool is most convenient. I’ve used XML knowing pretty damn well it was annoyingly verbose. But hey it came with all the tooling: a library to parse it efficiently, auto formatting in my editor (with folding and auto-correcting), all the docs for graduates who didn’t know it. And there was nothing else! The same is true of : Electron, Pandas, etc. Sometimes the “best” tool is just the “only” tool…