> Now, why can't someone just come up with a great tooling system for a "dreaded" language, put it out there, and everyone start using that when they see it's b

> Now, why can't someone just come up with a great tooling system for a "dreaded" language, put it out there, and everyone start using that when they see it's better? I think the first two steps sometimes happen, but the last one is where things get stuck. Often times a better experience means incompatibility with the previous solutions, so adoption happens slowly if at all. Then eventually yet another incompatible solution comes out, and things fragment.