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That's true only if your audience is well-educated engineers with plenty of experience under their belts working on projects with substantial backing.

Unfortunately, nobody starts out well-educated and experienced. And many projects start out small and grow. If you want to make your platform a broad success, you need to have a good experience for noobs and quickies. PHP is an abomination as languages go, but it's massively successful because any idiot can quickly get something basic up.



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