Hacker News Reader

I agree with the industry picking something part.

The part I'm not keen on is nobody asks for a discussion on things anymore, they just check stuff in and it becomes a defacto standard.

Which can be okay... but I'm not a fan of foie gras for a reason

Ok, but what do you find are better options then? If you have examples then we can discuss why they haven't taken off as popular standards.

> nobody asks for a discussion on things anymore, they just check stuff in and it becomes a defacto standard

Google doesn't own Nginx, so I find it hard to believe that there were no discussions and they just went ahead and "checked stuff in".