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by rfiat 1450 days ago
What you say about traction is a good point. I think "will it be successful?" is a very different question to "will I like it?".

At one end of the scale for me is Rust. I discovered it through organic hype and I like the language but it's not successful enough for me to have found a job writing Rust.

At the other end is TikTok. I saw many ads for it before anyone I know ever talked about it. It's massively successful but it doesn't appeal to me in the slightest.