Hotwire and htmx both look like good products to me.
Agree they both look good products. But put the websites side by side and ask what page has had more marketing effort put into it and I’ll think you’ll see the commenter point.
Principles of Rich Web Applications (rauchg.com) Nov 4, 2014 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8559519
https://www.infoworld.com/article/2612250/application-develo...
https://shiggyenterprises.wordpress.com/2013/03/11/picking-a...
https://blog.emberjs.com/inside-fastboot-the-road-to-server-...
It's not just that the idea has been developed over and over, but it is constantly hyped as a return to the golden past, and yet never gets the love that new client side spa messes end up attracting.
later on I figured out that what I was doing was generalizing hypermedia controls, but that took me years to figure out.
Second, I actually thought the same as you but digging into the history I don't see any records of a public release of Hotwire until December of 2020, and HTMX was public in May of that year. Both commit logs and first HN submissions are in agreement on those dates, but if you have other evidence I'm open to it.
I'm pretty sure what I was thinking of was actually Turbolinks:
That said, I'm not particularly interested in litigating who inspired who. Both libraries are neat and have developed in parallel for ten years. That's cool!
I do enjoy the lols I will admit that, hopefully as much at my own expense as anyone
Not pejorative btw - just a phrase to refer to the current article.
A good thread for understanding the different ways people think of it. I always go with @speg's interpretation, because the pejorative meaning just isn't used that frequently on HN:
> I tend to rethink of it as "the featured article".
I don't think "feels like 37 Signals took the same idea and is trying really hard to sell it" is very fair (I've never seen them try to "sell it" at all, much less "very hard"). Regardless, you're allowed to "steal" ideas.
I know people complain about any and all reposts in the first place (https://xkcd.com/1053), but obviously there should be a priority on teaching people things they didn't already know instead of punishing people that never read old news.
Re: the meta question, dang's policy that he repeats a lot is that reposts are fine every year or so [0]. Individuals may obviously disagree, but that's the rule that's actually enforced.
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