Chapter 12. How It All Fits Together
Google Maps was a big hit when it came out, and it remains quite important, but the new functionality it introduced was pretty much nothing. The contribution Google made with its maps site was taking things previously only available with a steep learning cliff and giving them its easy trademark simplicity. And that was quite a lot.
Similar things might be said about ReactJS. No one at Facebook invented functional reactive programming. No one at Facebook appears to have significantly expanded functional reactive programming. But ReactJS markedly lowered the bar to entry. Previously, with respect to functional reactive programming, there were repeated remarks among seasoned C++ programmers; they said, "I guess ...
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