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Monocultures develop because of corporate backing. The web being open and unclaimed is what leads to the great diversity. As someone who does both server and J
by mattnewton 10y ago
Monocultures develop because of corporate backing. The web being open and unclaimed is what leads to the great diversity.
As someone who does both server and JavaScript development, the tools are not bad. Often times they solve real problems well.
- quadrupleslap 10y agoThat's silly - if anything it's the other way around. Web tools have a ridiculous degree of corporate backing, especially with the countless libraries from Facebook and Google (React, Angular, Go, Dart, Flow, IMMUTABLE, etc.), and even Microsoft with TypeScript and others. Meanwhile, Make and friends don't have any corporate backing.
- bbcbasic 10y agoPlus IE and Chrome, fwiw
- mattnewton 10y agoNone of them can lay claim to the web though, contrasted with other ui platforms like windows, ios, etc.
- camgunz 10y agoThe web is pretty much corporate. All the major tools are built by major corporations, all the browsers are developed by major corporations (with the exception of Firefox, but Mozilla gets most of its money from major corporations) all the major web players are major corporations, all the major web monetization is rented by corporations. The web's no longer an open platform. Yeah you can put up a blog on your own server using only FOSS. But if you want to drive traffic to it, you're using a huge corporate ad network or some SEO company. If you want to scale it, you're using a huge corporate cloud. If you want to make money on it, you're using a huge corporate ad network.
- samfisher83 10y agoFirefox started out as Netscape so you can trace it back to big company.