The software industry is continuously growing (estimated to be doubling every 5 years) which has resulted in software being a very fashion driven industry which means that popularity has many prizes associated with it.
Popularity gives a wider ecosystem of packages and training which means that developers don't have to start from scratch when solving problems which has an accumulative effect on reducing the cost of building a wider variety of applications using that tool.
The risk associated with adopting a popular tool is lower for an organization because of the support and training ecosystem around it and the availability of people familiar with the language (external contractors or full time).
This results in jobs across a variety of organizations from small start-ups to large corporations being available using the tool in a wide variety of locations where skills in the tool are valued at the usual market rate.
For someone that is going to invest their limited time in learning a tool, success of that tool is them being able to use that tool in their job without being the one that has to 'champion' it and take on the personal risk of use of the tool being blamed for the failure of a project.
This doesn't mean the tool has to be the most popular, but there is a minimum level of popularity required to maintain this ecosystem and thus maintain the value of the skills that users of the tool have invested their time in learning.
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The software industry is continuously growing (estimated to be doubling every 5 years) which has resulted in software being a very fashion driven industry which means that popularity has many prizes associated with it.
Popularity gives a wider ecosystem of packages and training which means that developers don't have to start from scratch when solving problems which has an accumulative effect on reducing the cost of building a wider variety of applications using that tool.
The risk associated with adopting a popular tool is lower for an organization because of the support and training ecosystem around it and the availability of people familiar with the language (external contractors or full time).
This results in jobs across a variety of organizations from small start-ups to large corporations being available using the tool in a wide variety of locations where skills in the tool are valued at the usual market rate.
For someone that is going to invest their limited time in learning a tool, success of that tool is them being able to use that tool in their job without being the one that has to 'champion' it and take on the personal risk of use of the tool being blamed for the failure of a project.
This doesn't mean the tool has to be the most popular, but there is a minimum level of popularity required to maintain this ecosystem and thus maintain the value of the skills that users of the tool have invested their time in learning.