A language's ecosystem matters: libraries, afforable programmers etc.
Reddit, which was inspired by PG, switched from lisp to python for reasons like this.
ta;da intrinsics merits don't matter, only what's popular.
Reddit, which was inspired by PG, switched from lisp to python for reasons like this.
ta;da intrinsics merits don't matter, only what's popular.
Only if you assume popularity is static. "Innovators", and then "early adopters" keep trying things to move it forward. Popularity is fickle and disloyal - i.e. dynamic.