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The internet is an extremely efficient judge of usefulness. If your pet language isn't taking off like a rocket and displacing the competitors, then it's becau
by maeon3 14y ago
The internet is an extremely efficient judge of usefulness. If your pet language isn't taking off like a rocket and displacing the competitors, then it's because it isn't much better (maybe even worse) than the existing solutions.
- majormajor 14y agoMost web apps have a very low bar of good enough when it comes to language requirements. Especially when solid frameworks have already been written for alternative languages. Right now I'm doing Rails—Ruby isn't the absolute first language I'd choose, all things being equal, but it's good enough that I don't have a lot of motivation to use something else. (Previously, though, I was doing work on ancient Java servlets apps without any additional framework. That was frustrating enough to make me look for something else!)