[alkonaut]

The point of these articles and other opinion-making (such as right here on HN) is that we don’t choose tools. We are given the popular tools. They are popular because other developers chose them at the companies were we work. And they chose them because they thought they would be suitable for the purpose.

So if you want to do everything in your power to prevent a tool you think is terrible from being more popular - you can do very little apart from writing opinion in blogs or forums, improving the tool, or provide better alternatives.

Shitting on a technology might seem like the least noble of the 3, but it’s likely quite time-efficient compared to the other two. It’s certainly not useless.

[aw4y]

Why should I care if Go/Rust/anything else becomes popular? I don't expect that if I don't "fight" against a language I'll be forced to use it in 2 years: there will be space for different techs, tools and so on.

I can agree with you if we talk about "tools" that attacks our privacy, our rights and our freedom: spend you time convincing people to abandon facebook or something similar and you'll do something good.

But in this case, it doesn't change much, imho.

[erik_seaberg]

> I don't expect that if I don't "fight" against a language I'll be forced to use it

I didn’t used to worry about this until it started happening to the sharp, experienced Scala/Java team I’m on by preference. Other teams are now deploying half-finished platforms on which only Go is supported fully, or sometimes at all.