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wvenable 17 hours ago

That is, unfortunately, not how anything works.

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zb3 17 hours ago | parent [-]

Tell me more.. there's a X lange and it's superior in every aspect. Wouldn't new apps be written in that language? Why?

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wvenable 17 hours ago | parent [-]

If I created the perfect language tomorrow the very first problem is that absolutely nobody would have any experience in it.

It would also have no other ecosystem. No books. No tutorials. No mentors. No libraries. No frameworks.

And even as it got those things, they would remain immature and incomplete for a long time when compared to the ecosystem around languages that are decades old.

I could also make an operating system that was superior in every way and it would fail because there would be no apps for it.

	▲	zb3 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		In other words, it wouldn't be superior according to the way I understand it. Learning curve, existing libraries and solutions all matter in this comparison.. For me it'd have to interact seamlessly with other languages and enable incremental adoption, otherwise you can't swap one with another. But you can swap a floppy disk with USB flash drive if the PC has an USB port, so that's what I mean by superior..