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imtringued on Oct 9, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: The unreasonable effectiveness of the Julia progra...

Ceylon had good IDE support when it was 4 years old and nobody used it. That's just an excuse.

coldtea on Oct 10, 2020 [–]

That doesn't prove that "it's just an excuse".

It just shows that while IDE support is a factor, it's not the single determining factor.

Ceylon had horrible marketing and advocacy, for starters. And the IDE was Eclipse, at a time that it was getting increasingly unpopular...

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