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I don't think whether or not it happens (or has already happened) depends solely on whether the other languages are better. Isn't it a lot of it a co-ordination
by dri_ft 10y ago
I don't think whether or not it happens (or has already happened) depends solely on whether the other languages are better. Isn't it a lot of it a co-ordination problems? People want to write in the languages that are widely used and have a lot of libraries; people write libraries for languages that are already widely used; that sort of thing?
You're right about Ice Ice Baby, though.
- dgreensp 10y agoI see it as popularity vs merit. A lot of things feed into popularity, like familiarity and network effects. Also, you can be popular by appealing to the sentiments or taste of the masses or influencers, regardless of merit, unless there are strong corrective market forces.
- throwaway7645 10y agoHaha, you're right that there is a chicken and egg problem, but if DART was really an order of magnitude greater than JS, there would be a lot more DART programmers after this many years.