[birdstheword5]

I've met several people who learned Python and refuse to learn any other language. I wonder if this mentality exists for other languages

[exyi]

Oh yes, it's sooo common. I met many C# web developers who just refuse to even learn a bit of JS, "because it's soo bad language"

[Semaphor]

I think JS and PHP have a special status here and don’t count as an answer to what GP was asking. Many people hate JS and/or PHP, often for legacy reasons.

[exyi]

But it's not only JS, I used it as an example because these people are doing websites, yet don't even want to learn JS. They also hate to write SQL and are stuck with ORMs...

[Semaphor]

That is different, but SQL is also not a general programming language. I see what you say as an issue with those people, but a different issue ;)

[tcbasche]

Not even at a language level. There are Java developers who only want to work with particular frameworks (Spring) and don't know anything else or want to learn anything else.

[ohCh6zos]

I know right around seven languages I would be comfortable claiming I knew on a job application. I am probably more opinionated about language features, but less picky about the specific language for it.

[rhn_mk1]

I'm seeing a lot of resistance from C programmers to switch to anything else for which I can't find a rational explanation.

[npsimons]

> I wonder if this mentality exists for other languages

Visual Basic, PHP and Java come to mind. Probably C# as well.