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by jamesbritt 5767 days ago
A language community needs to be robust enough to look after these things. This is not the same thing as, nor does it require, "beating" other languages. Even accounting for limited time and attention from interested developers this is not a zero-sum situation.

Language communities do not need to push for a monoculture in tools and frameworks to be robust; cultures that avoid this are much healthier in the long run.