Have you ever thought what could be a reason why some development environment (database, language) would eventually become popular? What part of this popularity could be explain as language quality? What by new and idioms approaches introduced by early language adopters? What is due to healthy ecosystem collaboration? What is due to some marketing genius?
When I was working for Intersystems as Sales Engineer in their Russian office, we have discussed these things many times: we have experimented with meetups, new forms of working with IT community; we have seeded and curated forums and commun









