[Mawr]

> In the final analysis, the relationship between the success of a language and any intrinsic qualities is very hard to qualify.

Not at all. It's the same as with literally any other product. If it's good, people will use it. Outliers are rare.

Now, you may disagree with what most people consider good, but that's another discussion ;)

[Xeamek]

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias

[Xeamek]

I guess marketing industry is billion dollar money sink then.

"Just get-good at making products, duh"

[Mawr]

The thing about marketing is it can at best get people to check your product out. It can't make them keep using it.

That's why I didn't mention it, it's boring table-stakes stuff. Obviously if you don't tell anyone about your product, no one will use it. That's not the hard part.

The hard part is of course making a compelling enough product that people actively want to use it. The really good products even advertise themselves to a certain extent.