For those that are disappointed at the omissions in the timeline: > Disclaimer > We could have mentioned a lot of other projects: > [lines omitted] > ...but we had to make choices to keep this timeline compact. > The 2 main constraints were: > We wanted 20 projects because we are in 2020 > We wanted at least one project for every year between 2010 and 2020. Reasoning kind of dumb, since this could have been a much mo…
I think Backbone is a really big omission, specially because it credits Angular for the popularity of the SPA and in doing so practically erases Jeremy Ashkenas and his awesome contributions from Javascript history. I would argue you can trace modern JS to Backbone, Underscore and CoffeeScript.
As someone who has been writing javascript for over a decade, I find this list to be really disingenuous. Putting projects like Rome, Snowpack, and Deno alongside jQuery is almost laughable. They certainly have large potential upside, but they have yet to have any significant tangible impact on the Javascript community. I'm all for them and will continue to support their development, but why not mention the projects that had genuine historic impact. Does angular really belong here twice? I'm not sure it belongs even once.
I suppose it shouldn't bug me this much.. it's just a list. But given everything the developers of these projects have given me, I'd like to see them get the credit they deserve.