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Because it is used... a lot. The only technologies that don't have animosity are the technologies that no one has ever used.



Random counter-examples: Python, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, Redis, ElasticSearch, zsh, grep, ssh, git, ...

There's "one lonely dude complaining on the internet", which you can safely ignore. And there's "half the audience has horror stories to tell", which should probably be a red flag.




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