This -> people make social rather than technical decisions Leo Meyerovich did a study on the social factors that affect language adoption[0]. Vivek Haldar has

This -> people make social rather than technical decisions Leo Meyerovich did a study on the social factors that affect language adoption[0]. Vivek Haldar has a highlights the salient points[1]. More info at his site: [2] [0]: http://lmeyerov.github.io/projects/socioplt/papers/oopsla2013.pdf http://lmeyerov.github.io/projects/socioplt/papers/oopsla201... [1]: http://blog.vivekhaldar.com/post/56972066006/empirical-analysis-of-programming-language-adoption http://blog.vivekhaldar.com/post/56972066006/empirical-analy... [2]: http://lmeyerov.github.io/ http://lmeyerov.github.io/