The more things change (2015)

Good post and an interesting comparison with some intriguing parallels.

FWIW, this was previously discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10381015 (126 comments).

Also, related sidenote: I'm a Redux maintainer, and I love seeing what people are building with Redux and on top of Redux. Per the author's comments about later abstractions on top of WndProc, there's been a lot of interesting abstractions built on top of Redux, ranging from reusable reducer logic to higher-level libraries that try to simplify some of the setup process. I actually just gave a talk yesterday at ReactBoston on the growth of the Redux ecosystem, which showcases some of the variety of Redux-related tools and addons that are out there [0] [1]. In particular, libraries like Kea [2], Redux-Subspace [3] and Redux-Tiles [4] try to make it easier to define and reuse chunks of logic in a Redux app.

[0] http://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2017/09/presentation-might-...

[1] https://github.com/markerikson/redux-ecosystem-links

[2] https://github.com/keajs/kea

[3] https://github.com/ioof-holdings/redux-subspace

[4] https://github.com/Bloomca/redux-tiles

This is the second article I am reading today that draws parallels between Windows 1.0 and the current state of Web Design.

The first article at https://blog.plan99.net/its-time-to-kill-the-web-974a9fe80c8... though predicts the death of the web as a platform