I call this 'bitcreep' (https://www.gwern.net/Holy-wars https://www.gwern.net/Holy-wars): the mere existence of a language or library will make coordination har

I call this 'bitcreep' (https://www.gwern.net/Holy-wars https://www.gwern.net/Holy-wars): the mere existence of a language or library will make coordination harder and gradually impose costs on the rest of the world and form a little bit of a gravity well sucking everyone towards it, for better or worse. If there are network effects and gains from networks, then there are likely anti-network effects and losses from splitting networks...