Martin, I just wanted to say you've built something awesome here. I'm the player Vheissu you might see who has been topping the leaderboard. I would love to help you expand upon the game and make it even better. I'm a bit addicted to it, but think being able to have other avenues to expand the mechanics would be awesome (think maintenance costs, fuel costs, market volatility around fuel, etc). If you're down for a collaborator, I'd love to get involved. It's got a lot of potential.
Sadly, Aurelia didn't quite catch on like other options. But, it's funny when you look at libraries like Svelte, many of their touted features like reactivity not only existed in Aurelia, but in Durandal before it. I think it comes with age. I'm in my mid-thirties now, so I just use what I want to use that gets results. But I remember being young and hungry as a developer in my twenties, you used what everyone else used because of job prospects.
I think Aurelia 2 still has the potential to make a comeback. Maybe not popular like React or Vue, but still. The beta has been quite good. It just needs more awareness.
One of the exact reasons I've been working with Aurelia as my Javascript framework of choice since 2015. Aurelia 1 has served me well and I have apps that have been in production for eight years untouched. They just keep running without fail and they're so simple. Similarly, Aurelia 2 (currently in beta) is even better and as stable (same templating syntax, DI, etc). I tend to avoid all of the hype in the front-end space. The only thing clients and companies care about at the end of the day are results.
- Simple syntax
- Convention over configuration, but gives you the ability to configure it when you need too
- Standards compliance
- Has state management, routing, validation, Fetch client and translation packages
- Completely written in TypeScript, so everything is strongly typed
- Great docs
- HTML templating syntax is standards compliant, so everything looks similar to native HTML. None of this weird curly, banana in a box, square bracket and weird symbol nonsense that is not intuitive.
People always ask, "Why not React?", "Why not Vue?", "Why not Svelte?", etc. People think you need to use the most popular option like it's a popularity contest. I find it laughable to build a React application in 2023 you don't just `npm install react`, people tell you to use something like Next.js which is a framework built on React (the very thing developers tried arguing for years you didn't need to build apps and that libraries were enough). I can guarantee that most of the people in this comments section either tried Aurelia years ago when it was v1 or have never heard of it. Then you would have some that won't use it because it's not big or popular enough.
I can build an app using Aurelia faster than most developers could using React or any other convoluted framework or library. Even Vue used to be nice and basic, before Vue 3 where they decided they would become React Lite and introduce complexity in the way you build things because everyone bought into the myth everything has to be functions and classes are bad.
At the end of the day the safest strategy is to use what works for you and ignore everything else.
Precisely this. When I first started out, it was freelancer.com which eventually went down the path of molecular type tracking. It's invasive and people don't want to pay you what you're worth, but you do it for the experience and to build up a feedback profile to bolster your credibility.
The feedback is what you work for, what you tolerate the poor payment for unrealistic work in return. Without it, you can't grow on these platforms and the people bidding for cheap labour know this and use it to their advantage. Platforms like Upwork all but encourage exploitation through fear, the lowest common denominator always wins.
I hate to hijack this submission, but not so long ago I tried submitting some free startup ideas of my own on Github here: https://github.com/Vheissu/Free-Ideas — because I'm not a Hacker News power-user and don't live in a popular time zone (I'm from Aus) it was largely ignored.
Ideas are very much in the execution, but I think you need a good idea to execute upon in the first place and this Google Doc and the likes of my repository of ideas are perfect ways to find an idea or perhaps add to an existing idea.
This was bound to happen. What goes up and steals other companies designs and game ideas must come down. It's unfortunate the front-line employees who worked for Zynga and only did as they were asked and weren't the perpetrators for coming up with game designs to rip off have been shafted in this situation.
They're nothing more than a money hungry company that deserves to perish. The real question here is: will this have a knock on effect for Facebook stock and perhaps have a chain reaction?
If I were Facebook I'd seriously be considering an acquisition and then priority number #1 being turn the image of Zynga around, perhaps even re-brand to Facebook Games.