I don't see them as competitors, but partners. I'm not afraid to break any language out for certain features. The holy wars seem ridiculous to me, because the language is just the tool, the programmer is the deity at work.
Frankly there are a lot of people who find the holy wars fun and will fight them when its talk time, but when its work time will use the right tool. Then there are the people who don't get it and use the wrong tool out of religious zealotry.