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XHTML looked like it would totally usurp HTML at one point but then we went back to HTML with avengence when everyone jumped on the HTML5 hype train. Postgres
by randomdata 4y ago
XHTML looked like it would totally usurp HTML at one point but then we went back to HTML with avengence when everyone jumped on the HTML5 hype train.
Postgres used QUEL instead of SQL for the first decade of its life. There were several competing languages in the relational database space at one time, but SQL eventually won, no doubt thanks to Oracle and IBM's utter dominance in the space a few decades ago.
Declarative doesn't mean staying power. Reaching ubiquity through luck and random chance seems to be what achieves staying power. Javascript likely fits this category too. Browser developers 30 years from now will no doubt still be using Javascript.