This thread has been stormed by people who work in the sys admin space and either don't care to learn the technology, have used it unsuccessfully while it was young, or see it as harmful to their career.
HN tech hivemind is often both conservative and arrogant: node is an aberration, atom is a travesty, docker is for the lazy, front end frameworks are overused, etc etc.
Very true. The fact is, even very intelligent people tend to stick with ideas that were popular as they 'grew' into their position.
Programming is young, but if you look at the history of more developed fields such as physics and mathematics, there is a very long history of extremely respected scientists out right rejecting new theories for being outlandish and ridiculous that we now accept as the bedrock of scientific theory.
The truth is, just as with physics and mathematics, in computer science new ideas do form, but older generations rarely adapt, and it's only with death of the old, and the growth of a new generation do ideas become accepted.
