They're all just tools. There's things to be discussed tool to tool (language to language) for sure, but I generally agree with the idea here.
>woodworkers take pride in the finished product, and seeing that finish product being used. They are not all hot on the tools they use
For a while another hobby of mine was photography, and oh man photography has so much tool talk online that I lost interest in any online discussions / forums. Comparing this lens to that and so on was so prevalent that it seemed entirely disconnected from the hobby of actually taking a photograph.
Decades ago I took some outstanding photographs with an early days digital camera that would be greatly outclassed by a random camera on a smartphone now, but does that matter?
I suspect it is because high level talk about tools is just easier than talking about the actual code / effort and hard work it is to make a thing.
>woodworkers take pride in the finished product, and seeing that finish product being used. They are not all hot on the tools they use
For a while another hobby of mine was photography, and oh man photography has so much tool talk online that I lost interest in any online discussions / forums. Comparing this lens to that and so on was so prevalent that it seemed entirely disconnected from the hobby of actually taking a photograph.
Decades ago I took some outstanding photographs with an early days digital camera that would be greatly outclassed by a random camera on a smartphone now, but does that matter?
I suspect it is because high level talk about tools is just easier than talking about the actual code / effort and hard work it is to make a thing.