[mastazi]

Language/framework fads are just that, momentary fads. I believe that, in the long term, things like good architecture, sane dependency management, well-managed life cycle (which includes provisioning and deployment) are far more important than the language/framework you are using. You may not like PHP, for example, but I would still choose to work on a good quality PHP project than a bad one in the latest flashy language/framework, any day.

[rvense]

I don't know. I just ripped out basically half the rug under my Scala app and put in a new one without the rest even noticing. It's not a very good architecture I don't think, but because of flashy language features like generics that are often dismissed as unimportant or even an impediment "in the real world", I was able to change a core part of the code that basically everything else touches and still be sure that everything works exactly as before once the code compiles again.

[mastazi]

I don't want to dismiss the importance of certain language features. I'm just saying that any Turing-complete language with a reasonable ecosystem is good enough in most situations (where good enough != perfect but hey, perfection is the enemy of the good!).