On the remarkable inertia of database and programming language choices early in the life of a company: https://brandur.org/fragments/early-tech-decisions
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The niche of short, environment-specific scripts, and the consequences for programming language design choices: https://brrt-to-the-future.blogspot.com/2021/03/why-bother-with-scripting.html
Blogging about my programming language project: choosing the basic syntax!
https://www.garden-lang.org/blog/syntax.html
Is there any relationship between language adoption and the size of its standard library?
These days it seems completely orthogonal, but early Java adopters spoke highly of the collections library compared with C++.
Maybe it's the widespread availability of package managers?