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Is language adoption driven by the productivity of its available IDEs?


Simply put, if the designers of a new language want it to gain adoption and interest from the largest group of programmers possible, should those designers build a highly productive(Intellisense like features to begin with) IDE to encourage the adoption of a language?


Solution

  • Yes.

    Even if you've created the most useful, most advanced language on the planet, there's no way I'm going to waste my time coding in it if I have to use notepad.