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Interesting question on why tech X and not Y. Regardless of superiority or prior-existence arguments, such as Betamax vs VHS, Null-terminated-Strings vs Length-included, etc., determining a dominant tech is usually about the human experience, imho, such as packaging, marketing, buzz and less about the details of actual use. Seems like art beats tech, like book-cover beats book-contents or outer-beauty beats inner-persona in choices. So perhaps this is more primate-legacy-choosing than actual merit-based choosing??