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by lhorie 2884 days ago
Hi, that's me :)

Fusion.js is a team effort though: https://fusionjs.com/team

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I thought your name sounded familiar! I played around with Mithril.js for a bit before settling on React.js and was really impressed with how you took the simplicity of JS and used it to your advantage with Mithril! Sad to say that I couldn't replicate that cleverness in my own code because I could not really wrap my head around the reasoning you used to come to code you did in your examples of using Mithril, but that's just more evidence that you're a smart guy, so thanks for making Mithril which helped widen my view of what could be done with JavaScript frameworks! Also is there any reason you chose Flow over TypeScript?
Funny you say that, as for me it was the exact opposite. I had tried multiple frameworks before discovering Mithril, and it was the first that clicked with me. I think what appealed to me the most was the lack of magic, its minimalism, and flexibility. Whereas with other frameworks, I felt I was always encouraged to `npm install <another-package-or-plugin>`, Mithril made me dig deeper and understand the nuances of JavaScript.
How many full-time employees working on the framework?
All of the people in that page are full time employees and part of the Web Platform team at Uber. The only minor technicality is that Swojit is interning with us.