In the computer world, the worst thing often ends up winning. The reason? Market forces are more powerful than technical features. This means that if you rus

In the computer world, the worst thing often ends up winning. The reason? Market forces are more powerful than technical features. This means that if you rush a bad implementation out the door and it gets adopted by the masses, the network effects will ensure your bad solution wins. Meanwhile, competitors that are working on a high quality competing language or product will be later to market and miss the train. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better