alt Hacker NewsI wish people who ship crappy software didn't ship it and would let someone else ship something better instead.
It really sucks when the first mover / incumbent is some crappy half assed solution.
But unfortunately we live in a world where quality is largely irrelevant and other USPs are more important. For example these little weekend projects that become successful despite their distinct lack of quality
Linux kernel - free Unix.
JavaScript - scripting in browser
Python - sane "perl"
Today on GitHub alone you can probably find 100 more featured and higher quality projects than any of these were when they launched but nobody cares.
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WRT Linux. Sure, 1991 or really even mid-90s Linux was clearly immature. But Wall Street was adopting it instead of Solaris by the turn of the century. Plus "open source" so it wasn't the case of a new proprietary Unix just emerging from the sea foam which no one wanted anyway but Linux becoming the good enough Unix standard which is what people did want.
existing is better than not existing and those who move fast and ship crappy software first will win. learn the lesson :)
While we're wishing for things that are never going to happen, I wish users would stop adopting crappy half-assed first-mover software, causing them to gain momentum and become the defacto/dominant solution.