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All true, plus other advantages, but I think there are some business requirements that prevent adoption. The syntax and runtime model are unfamiliar and there

All true, plus other advantages, but I think there are some business requirements that prevent adoption. The syntax and runtime model are unfamiliar and there aren't enough users to get dependable critical hire biomass on a new project. Lots of management would rather have a lot of average, commoditized labor than a little rare, elite few. It's especially tragic because we keep repeating the same mistakes and discoveries over and over that OTP+Erlang solved ages ago. Eg most environments are still dinking around with clumsy hacks to help with GC and concurrency issues.

cpach 7y ago
“Lots of management would rather have a lot of average, commoditized labor than a little rare, elite few.” Very well put and probably very true.
- lostcolony 7y ago
  It is. Management will invariably say "We want the best!", and they may even pay comparable to FAANG levels, but when it comes to language/runtime, it's "We need to be consistent" and "We need something we can hire for". Meaning even if management understands that a language/framework can be a competitive advantage, they will still be optimizing for lowest common denominator.