Re adoption "syntax vs semantics" is myopic; have to understand tech in context
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Replying to @littlecalculist
I know we disagree here, but I genuinely think no one knows anything about PL adoption (except that everyone hates lisp :).
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Replying to @samth
like, do you think we have zero clues about how JS became popular?
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Replying to @littlecalculist
I would say mandatory use increases popularity (by definition), but also that we don't know why Node took off when it did.
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Replying to @samth
but anyway "mandatory usage" is a sufficient example. We know a lot about adoption!
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Replying to @littlecalculist
I think "more people use something after they're forced to use it" is knowing very little.
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Replying to @samth
so, how many things we know about adoption should we tweet till you agree they add up to more than "very little?" :P
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Replying to @littlecalculist
Other things we think of as good for adoption (like performance) correlate much less well with actual adoption.
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Replying to @samth
who is the we in "we think of" -- neither
@littlecalculist nor I would claim performance is correlated with adoption.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
I think it's somewhat correlated in competitive environments where bad performance has big end-user costs.
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it works best when it adds new capabilities (asm.js) or eliminates hard blockers (web framework perf)
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