Indicators and traction…

[ponce via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 23 September 2015 at 15:09:53 UTC, Nick Sabalausky 
wrote:
>
> This is engineering, not fucking fashion. Popularity has no 
> place in decision making here. From everything I've seen, 90% 
> of the problems that exist in computing technology today can be 
> traced back directly to some jackass(es) weighing popularity 
> higher than actual technical merit.

Companies use whatever the money-making competition use, and 
often bias their evaluations to favor doing things in the same 
way.

Look at all these stories about Twitter/Facebook/WebStartup 
technology stack. They wouldn't be anything interesting if they 
weren't famous.

But they are visible and make money, so what they use must be the 
right thing.