Library depth and growth are side-effects of a language ecosystems popularity. It doesn’t mean that all libraries are good ones, but remember the open-source r

Library depth and growth are side-effects of a language ecosystems popularity. It doesn’t mean that all libraries are good ones, but remember the open-source rallying cry “many eyes make all bugs shallow”? Yeah, that tends to be true. Also, in-demand technologies tend to have a larger talent-pool to choose from. Not everyone is good, but you have a much better time finding the right skills and cultural fit if the talent pool is larger. A great example counter example is elixir... A technology with a lot of advocacy but almost no demand. Slow library growth, almost no programmers with production experience, and almost no market demand... which is a self-perpetuating cycle. Choosing a technology like that for your stack is like buying an obsolete car with impossible to find parts.