Biason::Julio::new();Dec 20, 2023

The untold history of web development:

1990: HTML invented
1994: CSS invented to fix HTML
1995: JS invented to fix HTML/CSS
2006: jQuery invented to fix JS
2010: AngularJS invented to fix jQuery
2013: React invented to fix AngularJS
2014: Vue invented to fix React & Angular
2016: Angular 2 invented to fix AngularJS & React
2019: Svelte 3 invented to fix React, Angular, Vue
2019: React hooks invented to fix React
2020: Vue 3 invented to fix React hooks
2020: Solid invented to fix React, Angular, Svelte, Vue
2020: HTMX 1.0 invented to fix React, Angular, Svelte, Vue, Solid
2021: React suspense invented to fix React, again
2023: Svelte Runes invented to fix Svelte
2024: jQuery still used on 75% of websites

(by @fireship_dev on Birdsite)

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@juliobiason Actually, #CSS was not meant to fix #HTML. Independent stylesheets were planned from the beginning (as a parallel to #FOSI and #DSSSL for #SGML). (updated with the reference to FOSI, I knew that DSSL was just hacker-only non-corporate solution).
Dec 20, 2023 at 11:33pmWeb