"Argumentum ad populum is a fallacy." Yes, but when choosing tech it can be a good dimension of analysis if paired with other variables. Popular tools that are

"Argumentum ad populum is a fallacy." Yes, but when choosing tech it can be a good dimension of analysis if paired with other variables. Popular tools that are maintained if not bug-free can have a better understood bug-portfolio than a more elegant-but-still less used ones. Choosing the devil one knows over the one one don't know and all that.