There's a big assumption underlying this article: that it's even possible to make a language or tool so great that it suffers from success in the way the descri

There's a big assumption underlying this article: that it's even possible to make a language or tool so great that it suffers from success in the way the describes, where there's no need for communities built around the system because it's already perfect. I can't think of a single system that has failed this way. Nothing's perfect, and if the tool is good people will come together around it and form a community.