Being everywhere is a killer feature

[SwellJoe]

http://www.obsceneart.com/?p=27

[davidw]

Somebody discovers the value in positive network externalities...

More here:

http://www.dedasys.com/articles/programming_language_economics.html

[far33d]

"I believe that a PHP application will initially get ten times the users of a Ruby On Rails application that does the same thing. I don’t have numbers to back up this bold assertion, of course, but I’m pretty sure that’s the way it will play out, unless and until Ruby On Rails is as pervasively available as PHP (which is unlikely to ever happen)."

I don't get it. A PHP library might get more developers using it, it might be faster, etc etc... by why would it get more users? that makes no sense. There's no user-level barrier to entry.

[SwellJoe → far33d]

The article is about installable applications, rather than hosted ones. I'll update that sentence to re-iterate that fact.

[far33d → SwellJoe]

Ah. When I hear php or RoR I immediately think of hosted web apps. my bad.