[pookha]

LOL 2015 was a banner year for the trendy web-dev influencers...I can remember junior developers tripping over themselves trying to implement "flux" to handle some form input. Needlessly complex bullshit libraries got forced down everyone's throat because AngularJS was passe and React was "very mindful, very demure". Eventually flux became "redux", which I gather was a "state management" framework that ripped off a post graduate students custom niche language. And I want to say the redux kid's background was literally microsoft powerpoint scripting. Very surreal time in development.

[acemarke]

FWIW, I'm the current Redux maintainer, and that is an absolutely horrible and unfair description of how Redux was created.

Elm was _an_ influence on Redux, but there were many other influences as well. Dan Abramov's prior experience did include some VB (possibly VB.NET, I think), but also a lot of actual JS.

See the actual "History of Redux" and "Prior Art" docs pages, and a couple of my blog posts, for an accurate description of the influences that led to Redux's creation:

- https://redux.js.org/understanding/history-and-design/histor...

- https://redux.js.org/understanding/history-and-design/prior-...

- https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2017/05/idiomatic-redux-ta...

https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2017/05/idiomatic-redux-ta...

[bloomingkales]

We need a Behind the Javascript VH1 show.