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Should have said "the lesson I took from PGs article". Ironically, I don't think Lisp has the advantages he claims anymore. The rise of SPA and horizontal scaling and larger teams has not been kind to it
Fair enough. I think we've also seen that, contra multiple PG essays, popularity is a kind of strength since it leads to a rich ecosystem, which lets people concentrate on solving business problems instead of re-inventing technology.
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The underdog technology that's a secret weapon makes for a better story than the boring technology with nice libraries and good examples on stackoverflow, but the latter appears to be a significant advantage even if it's harder to tell a viral story about it.
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Underdog secret weapon is real, imo. Just not always valid, and hard to tell when it is and isn't. Our current gains from OCaml / Elm are pretty insane
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Agreed, especially given the apps people build typically benefit from reuse. I argue (given that both circleci and new startup use unpopular langs) that when reuse is not valuable, fancier langs are better
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