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The overengineering actually led to success, as it resulted in a batch of non-JS devs thinking that they had discovered some secret magic. They went on to write
by woah 12y ago
The overengineering actually led to success, as it resulted in a batch of non-JS devs thinking that they had discovered some secret magic. They went on to write a bunch of blog posts, which made people think it was good.
- fixermark 12y agoEnabling non-JS devs to create a rich experience website (even if it has performance and future-proofing flexibility issues) is secret magic. Never underestimate the number of non-web engineers who desperately want to make browser-accessible frontends to their tools without having to learn the "hell" that is Javscript. I strongly suspect people were writing those blog posts because Angular worked for them in a way that alternatives had not; I hear that's how things get popular sometimes.