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Winners are chosen because they tend to solve a problem easily for the average person. 99% of people don't care if it's written in rust or has the proper abstra

Winners are chosen because they tend to solve a problem easily for the average person. 99% of people don't care if it's written in rust or has the proper abstractions. It's, "I need to do X" and the winner does X easily. People here are very out of touch.

nitwit005 2y ago
If no one hears about something, no one will use or buy it. It doesn't matter how well it does by any metric. Marketing will always matter.
gmueckl 2y ago
It's a little worse than that. Given two products that seem to do the same job on paper, the one with glossier marketing will win even if it is an unreliable pile of crap in practice.
- axus 2y ago
  Counter-example: all the people that were using CentOS 6/7 instead of RHEL. Not that Red Hat did tons of marketing, but it was more than zero.
  - nottorp 2y ago
    Not a fair example because one was free and the other came with a monetary cost and a lot of friction in addition to that.
  - 9rx 2y ago
    People weren't choosing CentOS on technical merit. CentOS had glossier marketing than RHEL did.
  - bluedino 2y ago
    One was free
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