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by clojurerocks 5301 days ago
Of course it depends what libraries youre looking or. If youre looking for libraries for build the "basics" of a web app then there are plenty of libraries available. If yore doing other things though and looking for libraries that dont exist maybe its because youre using the wrong technology.
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Not necessarily. Sometimes the lack of libraries isn't solely because it is the wrong technology, but because it is the wrong community. Language and community are pretty intertwined.

LISP for example is a great technology for a lot of things, but library-wise it suffers because within that community there is a tendency for people to "roll their own" solutions.

Java has tons of libraries, but I'm not sure most people would say it's the right technology for a lot of things. It's generally the right technology for projects that involve lots of developers with mixed levels of ability (before some Java person down votes me for this, consider that Gosling himself made this point back in the mid-90s when he invented the language)