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> If it was as great as its advocates say, surely it would have taken over the world by now. That is a big assumption about the way popularity contests work.
by tikhonj 10mo ago
> If it was as great as its advocates say, surely it would have taken over the world by now.
That is a big assumption about the way popularity contests work.
- scragz 10mo agofree market brain.
- samdoesnothing 10mo agoIf something is marginally better, it's not guaranteed to win out because markets aren't perfectly rational. However if something is 10x better than its competitors it will almost always win.
- hu3 10mo agoInvert the logic. The big assumption here is to think that a language can be so much superior and yet mostly ignored after half of century of existence. I'm sure Lisp has its technical merits but language adoption criterion is multi-dimensional. Thinking Lisp should be more popular disregarding many factors of language popularity is the true "Programmer who live in Flatland".