"Users don't care what language it's written in, so why should you?" ...uhm ...because YOU are the one WRITING it? and because your productivity matters, and yo

"Users don't care what language it's written in, so why should you?" ...uhm ...because YOU are the one WRITING it? and because your productivity matters, and you learning how to do better things or expand your mind or learn new things matters and because your enjoyment matters (and if you don't write code because you enjoy it, then you shouldn't be a programmer, so just pick another job, PLEASE!) I think all good programmers should be somewhat selfish and care about their needs, not just the user's, because this helps them grow and makes them better, which in the long run is better for the user too. The "user doesn't care" mentality embraced by so many managers leads to lots of long-run pain and sometimes, paradoxically, even to business failures, because not keeping your "coders" (I utterly dislike this word, btw) happy is really BAD for business.