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It is the point of the thread :-)

For many developers, maybe the majority, those languages are their objective reality. They haven't used anything else, they might not ever use anything else.

So things which extend the range of their tools are very much appreciated.

They're not going to shun their existing programming languages because other people don't like them and they're not going to switch to OCaml or to commercial Java compilers, either ;-)



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