localareaman

It's not language quality and merits per se that are important. It's much about establishing status within a tribe that counts. PHP is seen as a low status language because many junior or moderately skilled programmers use it. Rust is a popular language among up and coming young programmers because they expect to over throw the dominance of older C++ programmers. Haskell is for the high priests if that is your path to power and status.

As a 62 yr old, it saddens me to think that young people don't experience the pleasure of a good phone conversation. Protip: If you want to end the conversation just announce it as in "ok, it's been nice talking to you, but I need to get off the phone." That never fails to work for me with no hard feelings.

Projecting? Have you spent any time on 4chan?

I'm aware that. I'm saying the article feels like a trope or playing to a stereotype. Maybe I should read the Buzzfeed article, which someone mentioned displayed more sensitivity.