[catlifeonmars]

> But frankly, I doubt it, if it was that similar, why are there at least a dozen frameworks with their own version?*

Welcome to the fashion cycle that is JavaScript. Given a few years, every old concept gets reinvented and then you have half a dozen frameworks that are basically the same but sufficiently different so that you have to relearn the APIs. This is what I think standardization helps circumvent

A good standard library prevents fragmentation on ideas that are good enough to keep getting reinvented