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by wycats
4213 days ago
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To be blunt, I would not have picked Ember, Handlebars, TAG or TC39 due to their "hype factor". In the cases of TAG and TC39, I saw an opportunity to take low-hype, low-bandwagon organizations and revitalize their missions and purpose. In particular, bringing on web developers as active participants and the follow-on effects of having them join GitHub and modern practices (slowly), helped increase their profile and stature. In both cases, I hardly did most of the work, but I did spend a lot of time articulating a vision for these organizations as ones that could be far more effective by involving more practitioners. I think it has worked. In the cases of Ember and Handlebars, I saw something missing in the ecosystem and built my own tools. In both cases, the tools were hardly instant-winners, and I had to spend a ton of time recruiting fellow-minded collaborators who shared a vision for the future. If I was in it for the bandwagon-hopping, I would have tried to join Mustache or Angular, and not spend years to build up my own, relatively small-in-comparison ecosystems. My real MO is to try to envision a better future for something related to the web or my product, and then either find existing projects that already share a part of that vision or create them if they do not. My involvement in many different projects is because of the fact that big-picture ideas involve improvements to multiple technologies. |
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