There is nothing that «most people do». When will people realize this? Yes you have trends on HN that are different from trends in, say, the oil prospecting industry or something. And yet they overlap sometimes. You also have vastly different needs. Some beed to optimize for execution speed and some for development speed. Some need high parallellization some need single thread performance. Analytics demands writing code in minutes or preferably seconds while aircraft software may require years of testing for correctness. Even the level of experience will impact how well you can perform on any level with any tool. I mean stop discussing how many teeth a horse has and just count them. We should spend time defining what problems current and old tools can solve, not discussing what tools solve one problem better because no two people will ever have the same exact problem let alone have the same exact understanding of it.