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A comment on The Rise of Worse Is Better (1991).
http://www.defmacro.org/2017/01/18/why-rethinkdb-failed.html
He does a great job describing how the "worse is better" essay plays out in the modern world, and how it played out for them in the OSS DB market.
http://www.defmacro.org/2017/01/18/why-rethinkdb-failed.html
He does a great job describing how the "worse is better" essay plays out in the modern world, and how it played out for them in the OSS DB market.