[cagey]

> ... appealing to popularity and cult of personalities are sins I didn't imagine the programming area will suffer from, yet it happens every day. Try criticizing one of Python's many obvious pitfalls [...] and you'll be buried under a mountain of "millions are using it successfully every day, have you considered that you are the problem?". As if the amount of supporters of a thing ever had any correlation at all with quality...

Hear hear. The last 10 years of my career I was surrounded by this attitude (about Python); there was literally no possibility of putting a dent in the groupthink and cult-think surrounding Python (because after all, wasn't it "the most popular programming language in the galaxy"?), which eventually became the corporate-ly mandated language for all software development (and that was that). Yet when I retired in late 2021, my employer's minions were still developing almost entirely in Python 2, having half-heartedly put forth multiple parallel Python 3 migration initiatives which had largely come to naught.

/rant

[pdimitar]

Of course it will come to naught, they just want a stable job with no changes. I can sympathize (kids, spouse, relatives, actually having a life outside work etc.) but at the same time they are holding the entire programming area back.