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momentum + ecosystem often play a much larger role than actual language merits.
by angra_mainyu 1y ago
momentum + ecosystem often play a much larger role than actual language merits.
- skeledrew 1y agoAnd yet that momentum and ecosystem wouldn't have been achieved in the first place if there weren't enough merits in the language to trigger and maintain that interest.
- angra_mainyu 1y agoI think the take should be a bit more nuanced. Some languages definitely had people gravitate towards them due to being innovative in a given space, but in many of those cases, the comparative advantage was lost to other languages/techs/frameworks that simply failed to gain a market share "equal to their innovative contribution" due to the first comer's advantage.