NYT has a history of hiring engineering rockstars. I believe creators of libraries like BackboneJS, UnderscoreJS, and D3 were at NYT when they had invented those amazing pieces of work.
In fact, the creator of Backbone and Underscore — Jeremy Ashkenas — worked on this article until he left the NYT last year (to join the creator of D3, Mike Bostock, at https://observablehq.com)
https://d3js.org/
https://www.quora.com/What-JavaScript-library-does-the-New-Y...
https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/3k3if4/hi_...
https://svelte.technology/
https://rollupjs.org/guide/en
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16247571
um304 6 months ago [-]
NYT has a history of hiring engineering rockstars. I believe creators of libraries like BackboneJS, UnderscoreJS, and D3 were at NYT when they had invented those amazing pieces of work.
danso 6 months ago [-]
I think Bostock had already created D3 by the time the NYT hired him: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/3k3if4/hi_....
rich_harris 6 months ago [-]
In fact, the creator of Backbone and Underscore — Jeremy Ashkenas — worked on this article until he left the NYT last year (to join the creator of D3, Mike Bostock, at https://observablehq.com)