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It's all changing, but it seems that front-end JS is changing the fastest. That's (IMO) due to a handful of reasons. But three standout in particular... 1) Th
by rco8786 8y ago
It's all changing, but it seems that front-end JS is changing the fastest.
That's (IMO) due to a handful of reasons. But three standout in particular...
1) The state of Javascript's standard library is getting better but still pretty bad. So people continually reinvent new ones.
2) Every company with a frontend (see: Every Company) has to work with Javascript (esoteric compile-to-js aside) on the front-end, so the sheer number of people/companies using JS is larger than basically any other language or framework.
3) Javascript is increasingly the first (and sometimes only) language that new developers learn and tinker with. And we get the resulting ideas/platforms/frameworks/etc/etc that people invent as they're learning.
- rhlsthrm 8y agoAgree with the first two points, but do you really think "new developers" are the ones who are creating the "ideas/platforms/frameworks/etc/etc"?
- zbentley 8y agoI do. Maybe not the tools that become popular, but new developers often consider publishing their first side project or personal tool to be a valuable milestone. I think a lot of green developers' JS tools don't make it to the mainstream, but they certainly do make it more difficult to filter hype from substance. That's not a valid reason to discourage contributions: more people hacking on more stuff and making more discoveries, even at the cost of fragmentation, is far more valuable than putting a chilling effect on contributions (and there are other ways to mitigate fragmentation).