How good are people at making decisions? http://danluu.com/bad-decisions/
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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.
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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I think you get large gains that come with a large cost, esp. for Elm but also for Ocaml. One of the core concepts in Elm from when I last used it (signals) was removed from the language and it's still pre 1.0 and at risk of significant conceptual changes.
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