It's probably not astroturfing, or at least not all astroturfing. At least some software engineers tend to do this. We've seen it before, with Lisp, and then with Haskell. "It doesn't work for you? You just haven't tried it for long enough to become enlightened!" Enthusiastic supporters that assume that if was highly useful for them, it must be for everyone in all circumstances, and anyone who disagrees just hasn't been enlightened yet.