[gprasanth]

How this is different from fabricjs or snapsvg?

[Fiahil]

It seems to me, that people in the Javascript world, like to constantly create new alternatives (or very similar) to existing frameworks or projects.

It's not 100% a bad thing though.

[acgourley]

Part of the problem is that companies started using github profiles as resumes.

[pavel_lishin]

Where's the problem?

[stevejohnson]

People keep reimplementing the same thing to the same "80%" completion level so they look good to employers, but the software is abandoned quickly once it has served its purpose as a personal branding tool.

[santoriv]

Step 1: Someone invests a bunch of time making something new.

Step 2: Someone posts it on Hacker News.

Step 3: Project is immediately derided because other people have also been making new things.

[stevejohnson]

Just to clarify, I was explaining acgourley's position. This particular project is high quality.

[danneu]

If your trade is building things and you have nothing to show for it, then it's probably a good idea to have at least one thing you can point to.

But trying pin and dismiss the intention behind someone's open source project would be uncalled for, wouldn't it.

[thebouv]

Evolution. Competition. Definitely a good thing.

Though admittedly the pace at which this happens in the JS world can be exhausting.

[agumonkey]

brownian.js

[jonobr1]

This project started 3 years ago. It's not that fast :)

[jonobr1]

Some of my thinking behind rolling my own renderer: https://youtu.be/cOfEMWV_5Rc

[crazypyro]

I really enjoyed this talk. Thanks.

[akilism]

I don't think this is something unique to the Javascript world people make sightly different eyeglasses, plates, houses, frameworks, libraries, programming languages, etc.

[eyko]

Being able to control the evolution of your library is a big advantage (if you're invested in it).

[amirouche]

snapsvg is svg only

[smrtinsert]

I was about to say it abstracts over canvas and svg with a uniform api, but it looks like fabric might do something similar?