It's a classic example of start-up scene tunnel vision. If you are in that scene, it's very easy to think the whole industry is like you, hyped about the lates

It's a classic example of start-up scene tunnel vision. If you are in that scene, it's very easy to think the whole industry is like you, hyped about the latest javascript framework and "passionate" about whatever is hip today. In reality, measured by dollars or by developers, the vast majority of the industry is run by folks in their 40's to 60's solving unglamourous business problems in .Net or Java for millions of dollars. I say this as someone who came from Python and JS and startups and so on and got into doing tech deligence for big funds - I was gobsmacked by a) how much of it was .NET and Java and b) how much god-damned money people make solving the most unglamorous and boring business problems you can think of. (And c) how much they spend on cloud services.... OMFG.) What folks in startups read in the blogosphere and hear from others in the same scene is not really reflective of the larger industry at all.