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Sounds like an interesting project but not sure it needed a swipe at "MVC/Backbone/React/Docker/whatever silliness that just doesn't do anything"...just because foundations aren't as visible as what sits atop them doesn't mean they're silly pieces of engineering.

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If you think you think those things seriously qualify as "foundations", well, you're just wrong in my opinion. At least for my purposes, the only important foundational tools are the language (JavaScript) and the runtime environment that supports it (Chrome/V8). Everything else is just so much hot air that only gets in the way.

I am honestly a "foundational" kind of a dude. I was into philosophy before I was ever into technology.

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