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by uninverted 6096 days ago
I don't care which language is popular, I want to know what makes a language popular. I try to choose languages orthogonally to popularity.
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jrockway 6096 days ago
I want to know what makes a language popular.

"Jobs."

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uninverted 6096 days ago
There's a chicken and egg thing here...
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jrockway 6096 days ago
Such is the reality of a field where the decision-makers are not practitioners.
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