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Either Svelte or React creators

• angrais 6y ago
  For the Turning Award? This is defined by wiki as: "The ACM A. M. Turing Award is an annual prize given by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for contributions "of lasting and major technical importance to the computer field." Its the Nobel price of computing, so I am not sure that a specific piece of software or its creators would warrant receiving this award. Rather, it's for theoretical contributions to the field, e.g. LeCun et Al., for deep learning.
  • tracyhenry 6y ago
    It's not true that it needs to be theoretical. e.g. Michael Stonebraker is awarded for making databases practical. But the creator of React might not get the Turing award anyways because they are not in academia.
    • cvwright 6y ago
      If the popularity of React persists so that it eventually drives a Turing award, I think the award would more likely go to Evan Czaplicki for his thesis on functional reactive programming.
      • tracyhenry 6y ago
        Thanks for the reference. I didn't know that there is a paper behind it. However, I'd say it's quite unlikely. First, he had a supervisor Stephen Chong back in Harvard who co-authored the paper. It's unclear who should get the credit on that particular thesis. Second, the paper has unexciting citation count (200+). Lastly, he stopped publishing and is not in academia any more.