From imitation to innovation: How China became a tech superpower

Re:From imitation to innovation: How China became a tech sup... by speedplane on Friday February 23, 2018 @03:59AM (#16445104)

I was recently reviewing front-end frameworks (i.e., React vs. Angular), and part of the review was looking at Google Trends to get an idea of their relative popularity. I was pretty surprised to see that while React has been gaining on Angular for some time worldwide, it's had remarkable growth in China, where it now surpasses Angular by a wide margin.

Certainly seems that China is faster to adopt this technology than others. Unclear if this is an isolated incidence, but was just surprised to see China pick up a new technology faster than most established tech centers.

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Re:From imitation to innovation: How China became a tech sup... by dep_b on Friday February 23, 2018 @06:44AM (#16445723)

Reminds me of a story I read a while ago about Russian programmers that didn't speak English at all so all things we recognized as words in the programming language didn't have any meaning to them.

Perhaps React has a syntax / mental model that's easier to grasp for non-English speakers. OO programming is definitely more wordy than functional(ly oriented) programming.

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Re:From imitation to innovation: How China became a tech sup... by tqkxzugoaupvwqr on Friday February 23, 2018 @08:13AM (#16446083)

I think expansion of software / tools into non-English markets is mostly driven by the availability of native language documentation, tutorials, blog posts, etc. The more translated documentation exists, the more the software is used, the more is written about it, the more it is used, etc.

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Re:From imitation to innovation: How China became a tech sup... by bajablast on Saturday February 24, 2018 @12:39AM (#16451906)

honestly, who in their right mind would use the new Angular it's objectively worse in every area. In my experience only Angular development is maintaining Legacy code. Picking the new Angular would be insane it's slow, buggier, less flexible and more expensive to develop and find talent to build it's truly a lose-lose (unless you are a Angular team consultant that is)

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Re:From imitation to innovation: How China became a tech sup... by fny on Friday February 23, 2018 @05:12PM (#16450075)

This is probably because Vue.js is as dominant in China as React.

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