Comment by Timon3
16 hours ago
> For the same reason ReasonML took years to overtake fartscroll.js in the number of stars on GitHub.
Wow, that's a fascinating statistic! Certainly puts the popularity delta into a different light.
On a separate note, the fartscroll.js demo page[0] no longer works since code.onion.com is no longer accessible. Truly disappointing. Luckily their release zip contains an example.html!
Well, it was actually slightly less than two years:
https://www.star-history.com/#theonion/fartscroll.js&reasonm...
I remember the hype back when it was released, though. You don't hear much about it any more.
Is this a serious take? Do we now measure popularity based on github stars? Thats sort of like measuring how good software is by the amount of LOC.