Ask HN: Why is everything in JavaScript changing so fast?
The open-source-JavaScript community right now is just the largest, most active open source community that has ever existed. Check out the stats that GitHub recently announced:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;octoverse.github.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;octoverse.github.com&#x2F;</a><p>Open source JavaScript activity as measured by pull requests has doubled (!!) in the past year. It&#x27;s more than the next two languages (Java and Python) combined.<p>Most of the top repositories on GitHub are JavaScript too: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;search?q=stars:>1&amp;s=stars&amp;type=Repositories" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;search?q=stars:>1&amp;s=stars&amp;type=Reposito...</a><p>Demand for JS developers is growing too, as websites become more complex, Node.js becomes more popular on the backend, and frameworks like React Native (more popular than any other iOS or Android library on github) start to pick up mobile developers.<p>JavaScript performance is also starting to be significantly better than the other scripting languages, e.g. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.quora.com&#x2F;Is-JavaScript-v8-faster-than-Python" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.quora.com&#x2F;Is-JavaScript-v8-faster-than-Python</a> . Not because of anything inherent about JavaScript, more that it&#x27;s worth a lot of investment from big companies in JS performance.<p>Basically, it&#x27;s not just the number of frameworks. Everything about JavaScript is taking off right now, and leading to a network effect where all the other aspects get boosted too. Sort of funny to have this happen twenty years after its invention.