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"Every developer is trying to pull the market share towards themselves." The first fight was between the closed source and the open community. Open community w
by imvetri 7y ago
"Every developer is trying to pull the market share towards themselves."
The first fight was between the closed source and the open community. Open community went blazing fast when compared to big corporates for web application builders. (visual basic/ oracle products / SAP builders...)
Second fight was among the programming language preferences that people adopted. (php/java/la la)
Third fight was between the backend and front end developers. Front end developers raced forward. (zzzzp)
Browser vendors started providing features that front end developers could use and need not rely on backend. Front end developers are playing the fight game effortlessly.
Now, there is a fight between browser vendors and a race among the front end developers.
A fight who will win market share in browser usage and A fight who will gain most of the stars in the github.
Backend developers just sit back with popcorn and enjoying the circus show.
- x0x0 7y agoThe one thing I think you forgot is good design is derivative of fundamental language decisions, and people took a while to figure out what was is good design for js. And then that was further reset by improvements driven by v8 in what designs are performant.