At what rate is the library ecosystem improving? If you could only use a 1/2/5 year old cache of npm/Maven/gem repositories, how much would it bother you?
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Implementation chicken:
When there's an obvious feature gap in an ecosystem and everyone is waiting for someone else to write it.
I see this most frequently with OSS toolchains. Basic functionality in new programming languages is another common scenario.
Has the JS ecosystem reached a point where people agree roughly what a good architecture looks like?
I don't see as many blog posts complaining about new framework churn and I'm wondering why.
What are the most interesting upcoming scripting languages? Scripting remains an important part of the programming language ecosystem.
Optimise time to first feature. Allow mutation of the running system to experiment. Interactive inspection of data.