Trainability wins at scale

Early guns were very bad. Cavalry was better. And yet the guns won because a horse-rider is hard to make, but a shooter is easy to make. Fast trainability lets less skilled forces to win just by numbers.

This is why languages like Python and Go prosper despite their shortcomings.

See also: Fast languages.

Reference: Hardcore History podcast episode about guns

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