3 ms·

Throwing out some observations/arguments here: Many more JavaScript tools and libraries have websites that are visually appealing than for any other tool or t

Throwing out some observations/arguments here: Many more JavaScript tools and libraries have websites that are visually appealing than for any other tool or technology that I've seen. Since the informational content is usually not of a similar or higher quality in my experience, it stands to reason that appearance is more important to developers of JS tools/libraries. Which could imply that peer recognition or career building is a more common, or stronger motivators in this particular demographic (of JS tool/library authors) I'm also entertaining the thought that JS development might be a more solitary work (on average), which could conceivably also influence if you choose to cooperate rather than build anew yourself. Most JS tools were also not very big, as they had to be delivered to the client, and as such more amenable to being built by a lone developer or a small team. The only thing I known for sure is that in 20 years of coding, nothing have confused me as much as the plethora of JS 'things', not even DCOM or the almost unequivocal praise of Hibernate (for a while)

patates 10y ago
> (...) it stands to reason that appearance is more important to developers of JS tools/libraries. Which could imply that peer recognition or career building is a more common, or stronger motivators in this particular demographic (of JS tool/library authors) I think you read too much into it. The front-end of a website would be important for tools which help making front-ends of websites, don't you think?
leppr 10y ago
>Many more JavaScript tools and libraries have websites that are visually appealing than for any other tool or technology that I've seen. Since the informational content is usually not of a similar or higher quality in my experience, it stands to reason that appearance is more important to developers of JS tools/libraries. Which could imply that peer recognition or career building is a more common, or stronger motivators in this particular demographic (of JS tool/library authors) I agree with your other points, but this one is easily explained by the fact that people who specialize in Javascript tend to be in the front-end/UI development field, and thus are more likely to have an artistic background/sensibilities.
- oblio 10y ago
  Both could be true. In my experience outside perception is quite a bit more important to people with artistic background than to the average programmer.

patates 10y ago

> (...) it stands to reason that appearance is more important to developers of JS tools/libraries. Which could imply that peer recognition or career building is a more common, or stronger motivators in this particular demographic (of JS tool/library authors) I think you read too much into it. The front-end of a website would be important for tools which help making front-ends of websites, don't you think?

leppr 10y ago

>Many more JavaScript tools and libraries have websites that are visually appealing than for any other tool or technology that I've seen. Since the informational content is usually not of a similar or higher quality in my experience, it stands to reason that appearance is more important to developers of JS tools/libraries. Which could imply that peer recognition or career building is a more common, or stronger motivators in this particular demographic (of JS tool/library authors) I agree with your other points, but this one is easily explained by the fact that people who specialize in Javascript tend to be in the front-end/UI development field, and thus are more likely to have an artistic background/sensibilities.

oblio 10y ago
Both could be true. In my experience outside perception is quite a bit more important to people with artistic background than to the average programmer.