Other reasons your language might have great tools: there are lots of talented, motivated people using it, or there is a large company with lots of resources wh

Other reasons your language might have great tools: there are lots of talented, motivated people using it, or there is a large company with lots of resources which has managed to find the right vision to put those resources behind (which, I know, is uncommon, but can happen). C# is a pretty good language with very good tool support. Not that there are no examples to supoort the author's overbroad generalization; Objective-C is an abomination, with awesome tool support. (for the record, I am growing to like Obj-C, but GOSH)