Great post. Definitely some great lessons in there.
It's missing a key ingredient though...
I see this as any other competing alternative to any kind of product. It's like saying Amazon failed because the didn't have a brick and mortar book store like people were used to.. obviously that's not the case
The reason all these jit-alts failed and were in a constant catch up, is because in practicality, most developers of x-language don't care that much about JIT.
Or more importantly, they care more about language features and interoperability than they care about JIT. This is why a product that "joins them" rather than competing wins. Because you are not offering more stability and/or interoperability.
It's missing a key ingredient though...
I see this as any other competing alternative to any kind of product. It's like saying Amazon failed because the didn't have a brick and mortar book store like people were used to.. obviously that's not the case
The reason all these jit-alts failed and were in a constant catch up, is because in practicality, most developers of x-language don't care that much about JIT.
Or more importantly, they care more about language features and interoperability than they care about JIT. This is why a product that "joins them" rather than competing wins. Because you are not offering more stability and/or interoperability.