In the corporate world even a few weeks of ramp-up time can create lock-in and network effects. Most programming languages can be learned in a few weeks by an e

In the corporate world even a few weeks of ramp-up time can create lock-in and network effects. Most programming languages can be learned in a few weeks by an experienced programmer, but there are still huge network effects. Part of it is that a lot of times you just don't have a few weeks to learn. But the other part of it is that the more popular it gets the library and tooling ecosystem also starts growing exponentially, so then you have to add the learning time of the tooling and library to the switching cost.