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by coldtea 1907 days ago
>But this what you get when maybe more than half of your community is made of non-devs, who never touched any other language and never will.

And this is supposed to be bad because?

They had a problem, used a language to solve it, they've solved it, end of story.

If they're satisfied with their solution, and it works for their purpose (and for their companies/organizations purposes), who is to day it's not OK?

Perhaps they are professionals doing a job, not dilettante nerds trying different languages and idioms for fun...