Tool Adoption Debate

Discussions center on the popularity, adoption, and community support of developer tools, debating why technically superior or niche tools fail to gain widespread use compared to established alternatives due to network effects and ease of use.

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pusewicz Jun 6, 2025 View on HN

There are better tools. It's a matter of adoption.

integricho Jul 3, 2020 View on HN

Popularity shouldn't be the deciding factor for tools of any kind.

fulafel Mar 16, 2025 View on HN

Few people seem to be using these. At a guess the dev experience is not great.

blackoil May 1, 2014 View on HN

It ain't backed by any popular service, so very few people use it, so very few dev implement it, so very few people use it ....

dilyevsky Jul 18, 2022 View on HN

It isn’t popular? Like “uber and a dozen of similar sized companies and some major oss projects using it” not popular?

toastercat Apr 4, 2020 View on HN

Why use any new & upcoming tool when an older, more popular tool inevitably has more community support and third-party components?

wolf550e May 19, 2018 View on HN

Not mainstream, and there must be a reason why. I guess ease of use, though I don't know.

iLoch Dec 27, 2015 View on HN

Go users aren't satisfied with what's already being used? Big surprise.

ipaddr Sep 24, 2024 View on HN

It shows the code base rarely matters compared to user adoption.

stillmotion Apr 5, 2008 View on HN

So it's not as popular and less supported?