Perhaps not exactly what you mean, but I have history of pretty poor choices regarding what technology to focus on between two that seemed to have similar chances to become popular. For example:
Textile vs Markdown - I bet on Textile, now no one remembers about it
D vs Rust - D seemed to be much more natural choice and Rust too complicated to become mainstream. Well...
Rails vs Merb - Merb was just better. Was.
DataMapper vs ActiveRecord - I think you can guess at this point
Yeah, approaches are alive. I was talking about specific Ruby libraries that were creatively named like that ;) And DataMapper is dead for years. Sorry, I should have been more specific.
Perhaps not exactly what you mean, but I have history of pretty poor choices regarding what technology to focus on between two that seemed to have similar chances to become popular. For example:
Wait, I thought both DataMapper and ActiveRecord approaches for ORMs are alive. I'm I wrong?
Yeah, approaches are alive. I was talking about specific Ruby libraries that were creatively named like that ;) And DataMapper is dead for years. Sorry, I should have been more specific.
Thanks for clarification :)