Tooling is really the chicken/egg problem of ecosystems. Good tools come from the best devs, who have a higher chance of existing in big, active ecosystems. But

Tooling is really the chicken/egg problem of ecosystems. Good tools come from the best devs, who have a higher chance of existing in big, active ecosystems. But most devs won’t join an ecosystem if it doesn’t have good tooling, so how can it become big and active? An ecosystem needs its early adopters to be excellent devs, so the early community has a high concentration of them and therefore greater probability of developing good tools that will attract a wider audience. That’s why I wouldn’t give up quite yet on unikernels. There are a lot of really smart people working on them. What the unikernel ecosystem needs is a “killer app” to demonstrate a flagship use case. I used to think Fly.io could do that, but they seem to have settled on Firecracker (as has Amazon, tbf). Whatever happened to the team behind the unikernel company acquired by Docker?