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Super anecdotal / off topic but still fun. In 2014 I emailed with a guy who worked at Google to take over control of a domain he wasn’t using. All was well and

by tnolet 9y ago

Super anecdotal / off topic but still fun. In 2014 I emailed with a guy who worked at Google to take over control of a domain he wasn’t using. All was well and he gave me access. I checked his Github project. Some tiny SPA framework with three examples and a handful of github stars. Looked nice. Fast forward three years. Over 2017 me and my (former) small dev team embraced Vue.js, built a non trivial checkout flow and visited the first Vue.js Conf Poland. I’m neck deep in Vue for other projects. That guy in 2014 was of course Evan You, creator of Vue.js, and I guess I bought the domain for one one of the candidate names for Vue.

fnayr 9y ago
Another anecdote. I have been working on a large mobile game in Unity for over 3 years. I need to write a tool to manage the virtual (game) item database so we could add content to the game without updating the app. I could build this app with any environment I wanted (desktop or web, any language/framework). I chose to make a desktop app with Electron and Vue and Element UI without having any experience with any of those and hardly any JS experience. I had a full working app that synced with a server and allowed multi-user editing with auto updates in under 3 months. Shared libraries and projects are definitely accelerating developers' abilities to quickly build things.