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Re:The Economics of Programming Languages (2005) by AnimalMuppet on Thursday October 07, 2021 @12:01PM (#28788089)
I think that #1 leads directly to #2 and #3. If you have the funding, you can pay people to work full-time on creating the library and the documentation. Without the funding, those things come very slowly.

And it's not just Rust and Go. Java was an earlier example.

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Re:The Economics of Programming Languages (2005) by renox on Saturday October 09, 2021 @11:05AM (#28810473)
While Java was obviously well funded, its early focus was definitely on marketing and making lots of new features even though the existing features were very buggy..

It was very weird fighting against the buggy standard library while hearing the marketing BS at the same time.

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