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Those are layman’s concerns. Programmers love to learn new things and are typically good at it. If a given tech has merit and some unique advantages. Edit: I d

by dgb23 5y ago

Those are layman’s concerns. Programmers love to learn new things and are typically good at it. If a given tech has merit and some unique advantages. Edit: I didn’t read the comment right. Productivity and being able to solve precise problems are essentially why you’re choosing a technology in the first place?

Zababa 5y ago
> Those are layman’s concerns. Programmers love to learn new things and are typically good at it. If a given tech has merit and some unique advantages. I don't think that's true, I believe most programmers are either dark matter developers [1] or people doing Java (or equivalent) all their life for a software service company. There is nothing wrong with that, but that would explain why less popular languages and ecosystem still have lots of stuff. For example, Rust has ~60k crates on crates.io, while Maven Central has ~400k packages. I believe Java is used by more than 10 times the number of people that use Rust. But the people writing the libraries in the first place are usually the people that are open to trying out new languages. [1]: https://www.hanselman.com/blog/dark-matter-developers-the-unseen-99 https://www.hanselman.com/blog/dark-matter-developers-the-un...