JavaScript - technological singularity & younglings effect

On March 2017, Eugene Gusev had an interesting talk (in Russian) at HolyJS regarding the technological singularity as whole in Front-End, and JavaScript ecosystem in particular. As a thesis taken, he noted an enormous number of 350k packages in NPM. Few points being stated over the talk: Quality of the packages (aka younglings publish low quality tools) Hype over the ecosystem (frameworks and libs go up and down in popularity scale)....

June 15, 2017 · 4 min · anvyst