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What do you mean by lack of diversity in tech?
(This is just personal experience I might have missed people)
But I only see a certain "technically progressive" (hopefully you understand what I mean) thinking, e.g. the people who praise Rust, Go and JS, etc.
I can't really see any of the (to be fair they are also rare on other platforms) "technically conservative" (I'm stealing political terms here), the people who prefer C and in general more lightweight software, or the people who will really praise the "Unix philosophy" and stuff. Otherwise known as the suckless people.
I don't understand something. What does this have to do with "left-minded" or "right-minded" people?
I consider myself in the far-left but I include myself in the people who prefer to avoid unnecessary waste of resources and am into digital minimalism.
I have had a lot of experiences in my still short life of people demanding more shit just to get their things done like at SysAdmin studies and I am finishing them with just ultra-low spec resources in comparison.
I also like Pascal programming language and philosophy behind it with the sad part of not being able to learn a lot in my environment in comparison with Java, which I studied recently.
This is a separate spectrum, it only connects with politics in names. I named "technical conservatives" that because they, similar to real-world conservatives, are against change and/or want to go back to the past. A "technical progressive" on the other hand, wants to move and advocates for the newer technologies.
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Now I understand.
To be exact I want progress but to non-stupid options. I want progress being sure of what I am doing at every possible level.