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by EvanYou 2943 days ago
FWIW, the GitHub age isn't entirely accurate because both React and Vue had major rewrites and the current default branch doesn't hold the entire development history. Vue's first public release was Feb of 2014 and React is just celebrating its 5th birthday.
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Likewise, Ember holds the record on that list at 6.5 years, it was forked from SproutCore which goes back even further.
Wasn't it just renamed from SproutCore?
My point was that Ember is older than the repo age indicates.

“Forking” vs “renaming a project and creating a new repo” sounds an awful lot like the same thing to me anyways.