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by bdw5204 975 days ago
That's the argumentum ad populum ("popular = good") fallacy[0] which is probably most of the most common logical fallacies. You can tell quite a bit about a person, not just as a developer but in general, by whether they always go with whatever's popular, they always go with something obscure or they go with a mixture of popular and obscure.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_populum