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"The complexity and learning curve of vim will kill the project"

"The complexity and learning curve of Emacs will kill the project"

"The complexity and learning curve of LaTex will kill the project"

"The complexity and learning curve of Sendmail will kill the project" <-- The only one that's partially true and it took 35 years.

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Expert tools are for experts, they can be hard to use as long as they are really good at doing what they do. If you haven't noticed though, these modern times are all about convenience. We even have delivery services for gasoline, and there was already a gas station on every corner. If Docker (or someone else) makes this stuff super easy, they are going to win.

Sure, and MS Word is way easier to use than Vim or Emacs or LaTex, and has a much bigger market share, but it didn't kill those projects.

Exchange is a lot easier to use than Sendmail, but didn't kill that one either.

When you need power and flexibility, which is generally the case when your project gets to any reasonable size, then you go with the pro tool with the learning curve.

Win the mass market I mean...

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