> Hackers have historically derided any website generators or tools like ColdFusion[tm] or VisualStudio[tm] for that matter.

A lot of hackers, including the black hat kind, DGAF about your ideological purity. They get things done with the tools that make it easy. The tools they’re familiar with.

Some of the hacker circles I was most familiar with in my younger days primarily used Windows as their OS. They did a lot of reverse engineering using Windows tools. They might have used .NET to write their custom tools because it was familiar and fast. They pulled off some amazing reverse engineering feats.

Yet when I tell people they preferred Windows and not Linux you can tell who’s more focused on ideological purity than actual achievements because eww Windows.

> Please do no co-opt the term "hacker".

Right back at you. To me, hacker is about results, not about enforcing ideological purity about only using the acceptable tools on your computer.