Are there really people out there whose decisionmaking process goes like "well we don't really need this library, but I'm gonna depend on it anyway to further the ideology of our movement"
Ideologies are rarely presented as such. I have seen places where they wrote databases from scratch, and rewrote Windows scrolling bars. Always 100 good reasons why using something else wasn't good enough. Other times I've seen people always want to buy the shiny nice toy rather than write a few lines of code themselves.
In what sense are technical preferences you cannot explain or justify an "ideology"? Ideology is not unjustified/mistaken belief. Maybe you mean cargo culting in technology, of which there is sadly a lot? Or maybe even "let's do this in JavaScript, because it's the only tech I know and I can't be bothered to learn something new"? That happens, but it's not ideological.
You're defining ideology too narrowly.....an ideology is a system of ideas and ideals. It doesn't have to be mistaken, and it can be completely justified and correct.
"I think Javascript is better because I prefer to use technologies I know" can be part of an ideology.
It was the OP, not me, that implied ideology is something negative and linked to poor justifications. For the record, I think ideology is (or can be) a good thing in politics, but a misappropriated term in technology.
> "I think Javascript is better because I prefer to use technologies I know" can be part of an ideology.
But that's not what the OP said. Instead, it was "I think we should use Javascript because... uh... I dunno. Let's just do it!". That's not ideology by any possible meaning of the word.
