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> The engineer bro-culture and a certain social status that is assigned to software or computer engineers and geekdom in general is a new phenomena.

And it's restricted to the US (maybe Canada and the UK, too?). In Europe, software developers are nerds, period.

[pluma]

Nope. At least not to the same extent as in the 90s. Yes, they often have nerdy hobbies or interests but outside of e.g. free software and Linux, there's a fairly wide representation of the same culture as in the US. I'd argue Ruby and JS are almost entirely filled by them (which makes sense considering their popularity is quite recent compared to C, Perl or Python).