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What IS "cool"?

It's that moment just before something becomes uncool, lol.

Software developers are glorified teenagers. Once something goes from upstart to widely used, developers get bored with it or else frustrated with the issues that arise from actual professional use. Then they go looking for the next fashionable upstart.

Oddly, I feel like PostgreSQL is on it's second cycle through this loop now.



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