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The next big open source thing
I was recently asked what my predictions were for trends in open source over the course of the next couple years. I wanted to restate and expand on that answer.
A couple years back, we saw the MVC web frameworks start to appear. We saw dozens of them. Some were full-stack, some patchwork. Some opinionated, some highly configurable. Eventually we saw Rails and Django rise up in popularity over the others1. And along the way we learned some things about web development.
And now we’re evening out. The number of new viable web frameworks will drop in the coming year, because we’ve found and refined the dominant web app paradigm. Innovation will happen, but it will wait a couple years, the same way we waited after apache’s language mods (mod_perl, mod_python, etc) took over….
Completed on September 16, 2007