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I disagree. They can do whatever they want because it's passion driven. If people finds the new language wonderful they'll choose to spend their time there and
by digitalzombie 8y ago
I disagree. They can do whatever they want because it's passion driven.
If people finds the new language wonderful they'll choose to spend their time there and to create their own community around it.
It's their free time and they have every right to choose how to spend it.
Also with RPC, the apache project arrow, etc... there'll always be people out there will bridge community.
Also is this really a problem? Programming language fragmentation? I've seen front end javascript frameworks fragmentation everywhere and they're fine with it. And the solution on the horizon are standardization such as web component (via w3c). These frameworks converge toward web component and now it's getting standardize. I'd argued that because of the fragmentation we actually know what we want to standardize and it also pushed for it.
If there weren't any fragmentation I'm not entirely sure if web component would ever be standardize.
- jcelerier 8y ago> I've seen front end javascript frameworks fragmentation everywhere and they're fine with it just because they're fine with it does not mean that everyone is fine with it
- codr4 8y agoAnd that's fine too, it's perfectly ok to disagree with the choices others make. But that's as far as it goes, you wouldn't like someone else telling you how to spend your time without getting anything in return either. I'd bet most developers would be fine with supporting and incrementally improving if they made enough money from that to do what they really want to do on the side. I would take a minute or two to reflect on all the time and energy that hundreds of thousands of individuals give away for free. It's easy to forget how far we've come by standing on their shoulders.
- gameswithgo 8y agoyou are not disagreeing with the article.
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