> Targeting the non-engineering crowd also means they are optimizing for a group that cares less about stability.
Looking at how many buzzword bingo boards I could make with JavaScript frameworks de jour and even enterprise platforms like .NET I find this statement exactly backwards in practice.
> An open source language is inevitably going to attract some maintainers who care about (or are paid to care about) keeping legacy code working.
Over 20 years I’ve found this to be quite a mixed bag.
Looking at how many buzzword bingo boards I could make with JavaScript frameworks de jour and even enterprise platforms like .NET I find this statement exactly backwards in practice.
> An open source language is inevitably going to attract some maintainers who care about (or are paid to care about) keeping legacy code working.
Over 20 years I’ve found this to be quite a mixed bag.