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title: Communauté et popularité

In software development, a lot of people pick the most popular tool that can solve a given problem. Popularity is measurable: you can check the number of downloads, the number of stars, the questions and answers all over the web. Quality, on the other hand, is hard to measure: you have to read the code and prove its correctness, evaluate several metrics and heuristics. It’s hard work compared to counting stars. Then, as a lot of people pick the most popular tool that can solve a given problem, the popular tool gets more downloads, more stars, and more people ask questions about it. Popularity is the best trait for becoming more popular.

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J’ai toujours du mal à promouvoir des outils pour leur popularité comme Slack ou Github, qui plus est centralisateurs. Mais d’un autre côté, il s’agit aussi d’aller où est la communauté, pour comprendre les usages et peut-être apporter de la réflexion dans ces lieux. De la difficulté d’être cohérent avec soi-même et avec les autres…