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Was the same way in the jQuery days with equating it to JavaScript.

It's a compliment to the tech of how useful and prevalent it is.

I don't think even young devs think this way. More likely the writer is just being lazy, and filled in gaps in their own knowledge with faux history-salad.

Or they meant a different year, like 2015, when React-Native was released.

Poor things, they missed the glorious Macromedia Flash days...

I do miss the games from shockwave.com in its heyday

It was Rails and React was maybe adopted more broadly after 2016