I have a theory about that; I'm involved in the SW industry and we're pretty much forced into C-style (C/C++/Objective-C/C#/PHP) languages in "the industry"... despite their many obvious flaws — The if-statement being able to take an integer combined with the assignment returning a value being a common one; though this is corrected in C# — and the disservice of the education-industry stemming from many little failings, like failing to instil the idea of subtypes as being useful. (Seriously, with as many math classes as I took to get my BS in CS, I know how useful it is to be able to constrain values in making stable & elegant algorithms.)
Nobody cares about AMD vs Intel CPU battles.
To be fair, Intel vs. AMD is pretty boring — both being basically the same thing (like Democrat vs. Republican). We really lost out when Apple moved from the Motorola to the x86. More interesting would be things like the 144-core GA144 or the Rekursiv (well written summary).
I’m casually learning C# these days, but I wish that my company took initiatives that would justify me learning it for them rather than for the next place I work. Still need Visual Studio for that I guess...