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Re:Ask HN: What are examples of British Web Innovations? on Monday March 01, 2021 @02:01PM (#26306683)
Yes it's true I don't think that universities are directly involved in that sort of innovation. What I meant is that they're supposed to produce smart people who invent something new, not necessarily via academic research. Thanks for that list too. Regarding the repeated "ad company", it would be nice to see something modern-day Adobe which isn't an ad company and Macromedia that are _real_ software companies.

Ask HN: What are examples of British Web Innovations?

Hello all. GB has the second largest number of Software Engineers in Europe, after Germany. I'm doing some research, so could you please comment on what British software products (libraries, frameworks, engines) for building the web do you know, and people behind them?For example, for Node I think substack and TJ Holowaychuk (although he's not noding anymore) are British. Yet I don't know of...

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Re:Front-End Dissatisfaction (and Backing Off) on Sunday February 14, 2021 @09:01PM (#26138231)
Thanks for the share. Poor front-enders forced to write JSX to make websites... If only there was html-first generator.
Re:State of JavaScript 2020 on Friday January 15, 2021 @07:26PM (#25798550)
I know right, I dug up a flex 3 book this new years it was so nice to actually read an actual quality book instead of some docs online.
Re:State of JavaScript 2020 on Friday January 15, 2021 @07:18PM (#25798489)
1. Optional Chaining and Nullish Coalescing is everything that they could come up with in the last 5 years. Private fields in javascript. God please what is wrong with these people. 2. If you look at resources, you have css-tricks as n1. Clearly there's very little number of Software Engineers / Computer Scientists in the JS world which doesn't have to be because if you're skilled you can take massive advantage of the cool prototypal programming language like JS. yet I bet 95% of the JS "community" hasn't even got a clue what a prototype is. 3. Additionally, you can see how the tools are skewed towards react/webpack but server-side JS can be just as powerful, yet there isn't much innovation in there. So that confirms the previous 2 points that the "state" of javascript, is just a homogeneous webpack/typescript bunch of people who think the exactly same.

There are so many real engineers who work with proper programming languages, and they get terrified when they see the "state" of javascript and curse it. I've worked with JS for the past 5 years and I don't blame them. There hasn't been a professional approach to software development in the JS world, everyone's obsessed with their tools instead of applying skill. But I'll change it this year. If you're a back-end engineer looking for a simple, yet very powerful solution to build your js/widgets, you'll get it soon. not free thank you.

Re:State of JavaScript 2020 on Friday January 15, 2021 @07:08PM (#25798396)
yeah exactly, typescript is n1 enemy of javascript, but they praise it in the very first paragraph... this is the state... of javascript...