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There are multiple reasons for this failure mode, only some of them subject to social learning.

Part of the problem is a learning process, and indeed, I think the Javascript world should have learned some lessons - a lot of the mess was predictable, and predicted. Maybe next time.

But part of the problem is that we pick winners through competition. If we had a functional magic 8-ball, we'd know which [ecosystem/language/distro/OS/anything else] to back and save all the time, money and effort wasted on marketplace sorting. But unless you prefer a command economy, this is how something wins. "We" "picked" Linux this way, and it took a while.




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