The Popularity Trap of Software Development

I ve been talking to students about this for a few years now. But I ve never heard anyone else talk about it, so it might be worth writing about it here. Or not. You ll be the judge of that. 😉 When programmers need a library (framework, programming language, tool, …) they often just grab a popular one. GitHub stars, NPM downloads, Stack Overflow posts or frameworks "everyone uses". After all, if…