How lit-html happened

An airhacks.fm conversation with Justin Fagnani (@justinfagnani)
about: creating fireworks animations with Apple IIe, games were
hard to get for Apple IIe, "hello, world" with Apple Basic,
enjoying the un-productivity and making funk music, Basic, Turbo
Pascal, Turbo C, Java and Python, starting with Java 0.9 and
Applets, Microsoft introduced JScript (Visual J++) with major
incompatibilities to Java, staring with Python and Django, Python
over Ruby, studying an algorithm book for two weeks to pass the
interview at Google, using FileMaker, starting at Google's HR
department compensation planning system, creating the AppMaker
during the "free" 20% Google time, AppMaker was shutdown in 2020,
AppMaker is an low-code application builder, one-click deploy and
one-click deploy, GWT and Java were heavily used at Google, using
Java's Rhino to run JavaScript on the server, the AppMaker clone
with Dart, writing parsers and Polymer Dart, Chrome supported Dart,
leaving Dart before flutter, Angular Dart is very popular at the
apps group at Google, wiz is the most popular web framework at
google, joining the polymer team, html imports vs. JavaScript
imports, CSS-modules and JSON-modules proposals, lit-html start to
provide better tooling story for Polymer 3.0, lit-html vs.
hyper-html, ES 6 template literals enable great performance for
lit-html, Microsoft's fast framework was inspired by lit-html,
lit-html source code fits on a slide, lit-html source size is close
to 3kB, the first lit-html breaking change since 2017, the
contractual obligation to support IE, lit-html vs. lit-element,
lit-element offers a richer, reactive lifecycle, decreasing lock-in
is lit's design philosophy, passing data between component trees,
cross-DOM communication with Custom Events, Web Components
conventions are micro stacks, less and less needs for a JavaScript
framework, chrome is shipping with import maps, web platform - and
the tooling is optional, polymer was not the component host,
polymer is popular inside google, lit-html is growing fast at
google, Chrome OS is using lit-element, Chrome Dev Tools is
implemented with lit-html

Justin Fagnani @justinfagnani, @polymer and @lit_html on twitter