> Marketing is often what developers brush off as "the other stuff" without really understanding it. Agreed. Trying to convince programmers to not write it off

> Marketing is often what developers brush off as "the other stuff" without really understanding it. Agreed. Trying to convince programmers to not write it off entirely (such as in the presentation) is a step in the right direction. FWIW, I think a few languages (Python, for one) have actually been marketed reasonably well.