[tankenmate]

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" -- George Santayana

Now, it is easy enough to lob an aphorism but an event like this means that lessons previously learnt have been ignored (for whatever reason).

If you are going to build something that replicates or advances on previous systems the least you can do is study those systems to see what they did right and what they did wrong. In my opinion the Javascript ecosystem has produced some wonderful new systems that do things that have never been done before but in doing so they have wilfully ignored the past and didn't learn some basic lessons. In doing so they muddy the waters and in the end bring down the reputation of the whole ecosystem. I guess then it is not a huge surprise that a sizeable number of people feel that an unusually large number, as a percentage, of Javascript projects come and go and keep reinventing the wheel.