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Koalas vs. crows: An evolutionary theory of software

Alex Moon is an Australian-British software engineer and artist based in the North East of England.

These ideas had emerged from the collaborative culture of Bell Labs in the 1960s and 70s, where developers like Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and McIlroy himself were building Unix under tight hardware constraints. Indeed, perhaps most importantly, jQuery began to be used by serious businesses, in particular by tiny startups who were out to take low-end customers from the big tech firms - and, of course, to create new markets among people who previously might not have consumed Web-based software. Of course, I need merely to scroll through HN right now to find any number of articles calling for an end to JS frameworks, arguing that Web Components and HTMX will replace them for good and all, and so on and so forth.

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