"developers prioritize expressivity over correctness" -- Empirical Analysis of Programming Language Adoption https://lmeyerov.github.io/projects/socioplt/papers/oopsla2013.pdf
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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?
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