Notes

About JavaScript

Definitely the most popular programming language.

Could that make Node.js the the most popular development environment? Unsure on this one, but the scale of JavaScript is very alluring.

Primordial Soup

So many folks are working in this eco-system, and people care a lot about developer experience and because basically all of it is open source. The eco-system ends up being a place where there are just interesting ideas being thrown around everywhere. To an outside it looks like absolute madness , but in truth it's just a dancing landscape. Even internally you can't predict it.

The size also accounts for the types of things people want to build, there's a lot of people who just want to build websites which fast and are basically [[apps/pretty-json-parsers]] and there's a lot of people wanting to replicate native app level experiences in a webpage. There's constant tension between

Interesting Work in 2021

  • Deno
  • Vite/Snowpack
  • esbuild/swc