Since most commercial projects have much at stake how would new technologies ever get a chance to become mainstream? For this to happen there has to be some ris

Since most commercial projects have much at stake how would new technologies ever get a chance to become mainstream? For this to happen there has to be some risk-taking otherwise we'll be permanently stuck in the current situation where a bunch of scripting languages designed in the mid-90s for single processors are tasked with handling much bigger workloads on multi-core machines. Hence the current wave of bolted-on gradual typing.