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Re:The unreasonable effectiveness of the Julia programming l... by imtringued on Friday October 09, 2020 @04:39PM (#24734202)
Ceylon had good IDE support when it was 4 years old and nobody used it. That's just an excuse.
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Re:The unreasonable effectiveness of the Julia programming l... by coldtea on Saturday October 10, 2020 @06:31AM (#24737977)
That doesn't prove that "it's just an excuse".

It just shows that while IDE support is a factor, it's not the single determining factor.

Ceylon had horrible marketing and advocacy, for starters. And the IDE was Eclipse, at a time that it was getting increasingly unpopular...

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