What's up, everyone?

This is Cortland from NDHackers.com, and you're listening to the NDHackers podcast.

On this show, I talked to the founders of profitable internet businesses, and I try to get a sense of what it's like to be in their shoes.

How do they get to where they are today?

How do they make decisions at their companies and in their personal lives? And what exactly makes their businesses tick? And the goal here, as always, so that the rest of us can learn from their examples and go on to build our own profitable internet businesses. Today, I'm lucky to be talking to Evan Yu. Evan is a creator of a JavaScript framework called view.js or sometimes just view.

View is used by hundreds of thousands of programmers all over the world to help them build their apps and websites.

And it's even in use of companies like Netflix and Facebook.

So it's tremendously popular and influential.

And I think my favorite thing about it is that it's essentially the brainchild of just one person, Evan U.

So Evan, welcome, and thanks for joining me on the podcast. Thanks. So we've got a mix of people who listen to this podcast. A lot of them are programmers who know exactly what view is, and I'm sure some who don't. But there are also a lot of people listening who have no idea what view is. They don't know what a JavaScript framework is, or even what JavaScript is or what open source is. So can you take a stab at maybe explaining what you're doing in a way that

everybody can understand?

JavaScript is language, programming language, almost everyone used to build applications

on the web. So if you're using Gmail, Gmail is built with JavaScript. And Gmail is an

application inside the browser. It's pretty complex. And it has a lot of special logic. And it has to

manage all these interfaces that you're seeing, buttons you're clicking on. So naturally,

it becomes very complex where you try to build something like

that instead of a simple website. And this is where frameworks come in. Frameworks are essentially

abstractions and a set of libraries that help developers to build this kind of complex applications,

make it easier for them to build such applications.

And VJS is one of those frameworks.

It is open source in the sense that we publish our resource code completely free.

Anybody can just use it whenever they want to, which means we don't charge any money for people using it. So that makes it kind of unique in the sense that we,

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