Although I do not see myself as a "superstar" developer, the employers that appeal to me the most are the ones that are willing to make sure I have the best tools needed to get the job done. For instance if I'm dealing with heavy duty searching or parsing large quantities of data I would rather use Perl. If I'm working in an agile environment let me use Python, and if I'm developing Windows applications let me use C# and the.NET Framework. I may be impartial, but if you're going to find the "superstar" developers, you need to look for the people who are willing, and will push, to use the best tool to accomplish the task, and lean that language if necessary. Not someone who is going to try and use one tool for every job.
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Although I do not see myself as a "superstar" developer, the employers that appeal to me the most are the ones that are willing to make sure I have the best tools needed to get the job done. For instance if I'm dealing with heavy duty searching or parsing large quantities of data I would rather use Perl. If I'm working in an agile environment let me use Python, and if I'm developing Windows applications let me use C# and the .NET Framework. I may be impartial, but if you're going to find the "superstar" developers, you need to look for the people who are willing, and will push, to use the best tool to accomplish the task, and lean that language if necessary. Not someone who is going to try and use one tool for every job.