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> I actually don't understand the obsession of many with Tech Stack or predicting the doom of a language

Really? You don't understand why people have strong opinions about the tools they use for work every single day?

Most programmers don't get to choose the stack they work on. Even if they do, you're going to run into pain points and wonder, "Did I pick the right thing? Would I be equally frustrated if we had gone a different direction? What would be the most enjoyable stack to choose next time?"

People do (and should) care a lot about their tools. Facebook cares so much that they invented an entirely new programming language called Hack to replace PHP, and they also invented Flow and Reason as JavaScript alternatives.

Even for small companies, tools matter. If you spend all your time rebuilding libraries, debugging at runtime, or waiting for devs to learn your stack, you're losing money.



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