I would say mandatory use increases popularity (by definition), but also that we don't know why Node took off when it did.
bad analogy: 1. web was never the only platform 2. Flash & JS were dev'ed for web 3. competition an early factor
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1. since the web was never the only platform, mandating bad options could also have killed the platform.
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2. Since Flash and JS were dev'ed *for* the web, there was no plausible analogous "law" -- ppl throwing spaghetti
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3. During the browser wars, browsers could try alternatives, like VBScript, and try to make them stick.
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