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Not arguing that you are wrong but... I believe causality went other way around. Everyone started migrating to web applications so there was money in improving

by ozim 5y ago

Not arguing that you are wrong but... I believe causality went other way around. Everyone started migrating to web applications so there was money in improving tooling. So push to web applications revolutionized JS tooling.

mmcnl 5y ago
I don't think so. Angular and React are made by Google and Facebook. The Bootstrap CSS framework originated at Twitter. Chrome/WebKit were developed by Google and Apple. The V8 engine inspired NodeJS. Also there was this weird time period where every app suddenly had to be isomorphic, i.e. sharing the same codebase as the webapp with the native apps. I think a lot of the initial work to deliver code at scale had to be done by Big Tech to accommodate their hypergrowth in the early 2010s.