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Re:Your users will do what you make easy by lmm on Sunday November 07, 2021 @08:07PM (#29145203)
If you know a way to attract only good programmers to your ecosystem, great. Most of us have to design systems to handle the way the average programmer will use them. It's easier to build a language that nudges mediocre programmers in the right direction than to make those people spend more time and effort learning the "right thing".
Re:Your users will do what you make easy by bobthepanda on Sunday November 07, 2021 @11:44PM (#29146182)
Also enough good programmers.

You could have the most perfect programming language in the world, but if not enough people know it, it's not going to get deployed and get into the world. JS is not around because it's some paragon of programming language, it is just smashing everything else frontend wise in terms of developer numbers.

Re:Your users will do what you make easy by phist_mcgee on Monday November 08, 2021 @12:42AM (#29146399)
"There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses"

Bjarne Stroustrup