The point I take home from the article is that every popular language became popular for a reason. None of those reasons where good design or the presence of libraries.
Javascript because it's the only language that runs in a browser.
Java and C# because they have corporate backings.
Ruby because of Ruby on Rails.
It's maybe an over-simplification of the real contributing factors (we forget education and learning curve), but would JavaScript be as popular when there would be more languages available in a web browser?
Johan
Is that cause or consequence of popularity?
Johan
Past the tipping point it starts to feel as consequence.
People gets attracted to what people pays attention to.
No attention, no business
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