Worthwhile article on how the value of developers on your platform depends on the size of your userbase: https://stratechery.com/2018/the-cost-of-developers/
More users means you don't need to work as hard to acquire devs.
Also discusses why MS benefits from buying GitHub.
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It's so strange that we talk about languages being slow, and have done for years. Computer performance has increased so much in this time.
https://hbfs.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/is-python-slow/ (shared on HN in 2009) discusses Python being slow. My underpowered Thinkpad has 20x the single-threaded performance! https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/73vs3766/AMD-Athlon-64-4000+-vs-AMD-Ryzen-5-PRO-4650U
Maybe *relative* performance of languages matters more?
It's so strange that we talk about languages being slow, and have done for years. Computer performance has increased so much in this time.
https://hbfs.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/is-python-slow/ (shared on HN in 2009) discusses Python being slow. My underpowered Thinkpad has 20x the single-threaded perf!
This article discusses how you often need #'foo rather than foo in Clojure code so you can redefine foo whilst testing your app interactively: https://srasu.srht.site/var-evaluation.html
Perhaps function pointers should evaluate to themselves? I wonder if there's a language solution here.