His background isn't even software engineering but he has come to spearhead (at least?) two very major projects that have shaped modern web development: Vue and Vite. Both Vue and Vite are notably "simple" and fast relative to their contemporaries.
Vue really stands out as one of the few, pure community driven front-end frameworks that has achieved major uptake (both React and Angular came from the commercial space).
Evan You, creator of Vue and Vite.
Really interesting guy. Good podcast here: https://corecursive.com/vue-with-evan-you/ and very, very much worth a listen.
His background isn't even software engineering but he has come to spearhead (at least?) two very major projects that have shaped modern web development: Vue and Vite. Both Vue and Vite are notably "simple" and fast relative to their contemporaries.
Vue really stands out as one of the few, pure community driven front-end frameworks that has achieved major uptake (both React and Angular came from the commercial space).
This Evan You guy always could simplify things that were made complicated by frontend folks