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Language adoption does not happen at a linear rate. Ruby languished for a decade until Rails made it hot. Javascript was a neat toy for years, until cross-brows
by jared314 14y ago
Language adoption does not happen at a linear rate. Ruby languished for a decade until Rails made it hot. Javascript was a neat toy for years, until cross-browser frameworks, like Prototype and JQuery, made it developer friendly. The revival of Erlang, and Lua, is also very interesting.
- stesch 14y agoEnglish books made Ruby hot. Not Rails. Rails was only possible because Ruby was already gaining enough users and an international community.
- jared314 14y agoI guess the issue with my usage of the word "hot" is its relative measurement of popularity. Just like the original comment's use of "widespread".