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To be precise, new tools are continuously created to address the weaknesses of other tools. This happens in other languages, just more slowly due to smaller com
by rmrfrmrf 9y ago
To be precise, new tools are continuously created to address the weaknesses of other tools. This happens in other languages, just more slowly due to smaller community sizes.
- not_kurt_godel 9y agoWhat ideally should be happening is that existing tools get incrementally upgraded to fix issues and add improvements rather than scrapped and replaced as if they're disposable.
- TeMPOraL 9y ago"new tools are continuously created to address the weaknesses of other tools, instead of fixing those weaknesses in those other tools" - FTFY. > This happens in other languages, just more slowly due to smaller community sizes. Yeah, my point is that there is a cost for learning learning a new tool; the faster those new tools replace the old ones (instead of someone fixing the old ones), the more you have to pay of that cost.