Data-scientist who loves to use #datascienceforgood, especially in ecology, energy and the environment. Bonsai, gardening, bikes and music when I'm not at a keyboard.
Tl;Dr isn't this more about the imperfect 'celebrity' tools you know to exist than the tools that are perfect that you've never heard of?
I don't have any good answers, but I do have a point that adds complexity to your initial query. A 'meta-complexity' if you will.
Do projects like rust and react have extra 'mind share' because of the success of Mozilla and Facebook, and so it's harder to be unaware of them. As a result, we echo chamber the existence of the tools more effectively, and so increase the odds of any one project choosing these technologies for a problem Vs a more home brew, but arguably more suitable technology that exists but has significantly lower awareness around it, as the developers are working on it in their spare time, or its backed by a really small company no one has heard of?
Sure, it's also definitely a problem of reach. But that's true for everything. I cannot care about the perfect tool that's out there if I don't know that it exists. It's a tautology. I do not have opinions on things I don't know I should have opinions about :D
Staying the realm of the known, in my final question, the "a thousand different reasons" I include many of the logical choices (as in "of logic") we make factoring in: time to market, the ability to sell something to colleagues or managers, familiarity, marketing, time itself (as we can't take forever to make a choice), the perceived malleability of software ("well, if it's the wrong tool, I'll change it down the line"), "wisdom of crowd factor" and many others.
I too don't have an aswer. I wonder if it's because there simply isn't one.
Data-scientist who loves to use #datascienceforgood, especially in ecology, energy and the environment. Bonsai, gardening, bikes and music when I'm not at a keyboard.
Tl;Dr isn't this more about the imperfect 'celebrity' tools you know to exist than the tools that are perfect that you've never heard of?
I don't have any good answers, but I do have a point that adds complexity to your initial query. A 'meta-complexity' if you will.
Do projects like rust and react have extra 'mind share' because of the success of Mozilla and Facebook, and so it's harder to be unaware of them. As a result, we echo chamber the existence of the tools more effectively, and so increase the odds of any one project choosing these technologies for a problem Vs a more home brew, but arguably more suitable technology that exists but has significantly lower awareness around it, as the developers are working on it in their spare time, or its backed by a really small company no one has heard of?
Sure, it's also definitely a problem of reach. But that's true for everything. I cannot care about the perfect tool that's out there if I don't know that it exists. It's a tautology. I do not have opinions on things I don't know I should have opinions about :D
Staying the realm of the known, in my final question, the "a thousand different reasons" I include many of the logical choices (as in "of logic") we make factoring in: time to market, the ability to sell something to colleagues or managers, familiarity, marketing, time itself (as we can't take forever to make a choice), the perceived malleability of software ("well, if it's the wrong tool, I'll change it down the line"), "wisdom of crowd factor" and many others.
I too don't have an aswer. I wonder if it's because there simply isn't one.
I think you're probably right, all the way through :)