project. And if it is very niche, then you could have problems because people won't know how to contribute. And to some degree, that might be OK because a lot of people are willing to learn a new language. But then again, if there's no way for them to if there's nowhere for them to go to learn the language, then that's going to obviously impede their their contribution. Now, I will say very significantly here that the that the inverse is not necessarily the cure all. If you write in a very popular language, that does not mean that people are going to flock to your project and throw code at you. I speak from experience. Tooling is is the next one. And that that's sort of the scaffolding, like what kind of what kind of tools do you have available outside of the language to make working with the language pleasant? That's an important, important thing, because, well, first of all, it just might make your life a lot easier. And, you know, even if you're not really into the whole IDE thing, (24/53)
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