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Maybe I’m strange by HM standards, but unless it’s sometjing I’m just learning for fun, it must be used by 2-3 major companies or projects before I’ll consider it worth seriously picking up. It must solve a problem I have that I can’t solve with technology I already know. It must be relatively approachable and have at least minimal documentation.

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It highly depends and what you're doing, most people don't face the same issues as "major companies" like Netflix, Google, Uber etc ... Yet a lot of people chose their stack based on these companies and you end up with over engineered solutions which are slower / harder to maintain than smaller / less hyped technologies.

Whether something is used by others may be more a gauge for whether there is motivation to support it / whether it is here to stay, than whether it's the best solution to my problems.

When I'm trying to choose between competing technologies, I often choose based on popularity rather than isolated merits, as want to build upon something which other people will be contributing to, rather than something marked for death.

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