> If a thing is good enough, it will hang around for a very long time because there's no compelling reason to move away from it. thanks for this gem I'd add t

> If a thing is good enough, it will hang around for a very long time because there's no compelling reason to move away from it. thanks for this gem I'd add to "good enough" a viable ecosystem. perl lived on for quite a surprising while despite the parrot disaster and python and ruby competition. and while rust has amazing momentum, c++ and c have a plethora of existing production quality libraries.