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purerandomnesslast Thursday at 3:15 PM1 replyview on HN

> If your solution is actually good, it will get adopted eventually...

I wish this were true.

Unfortunately, often the things that get adopted are the things hyped up the most, not the ones which are technically superior.

Popularity, marketing budgets and inertia often dictate what's popular.

As with all biases, we need to actively and deliberately work against these forces, if we value craftsmanship and professionalism.


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komali2last Thursday at 3:39 PM

Nextjs, great example of this. I've yet to find an actually valid use case to choose it outside of "our incestor's relationship got us unlimited vercel credits for like three years."