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by eternityforest 673 days ago
Standards, best practices, and copying.

I'm always looking for the hidden unofficial standard, or the option that has the best fit with either existing tech or the "Next Big Thing" people are moving to.

Like, if you ask me to choose a language, there's only about five I'm even going to look at. "more elegant code" isn't enough reason that I'd want to use some new language nobody knows, that half the IDEs don't support well.