> You can design the most technically impressive thing in the world, and then have nobody want to use it. Happens all the time. Very true... just yesterday som

> You can design the most technically impressive thing in the world, and then have nobody want to use it. Happens all the time. Very true... just yesterday someone posted about the Pony language main user switching to Rust: https://www.wallaroo.ai/blog-posts/wallaroo-move-to-rust https://www.wallaroo.ai/blog-posts/wallaroo-move-to-rust Despite Pony being an impressive programming language, technically, with a lot of promise, pretty much only one company ever used it and now that it's moved on, Pony is pretty much in the camp "no one uses it". And much of it is serendipity. A few tiny things could've happened differently, and now everyone would be talking about Pony, not Rust. Similarly, perhaps, happened with Ceylon (anyone remembers that??) VS Kotlin.