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taybenlor
on July 6, 2012
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A large, bloated JS framework with an unintuitive ...
Because google wasn't able to build anything complex with JS, like say, a document editor that synchronises changes across multiple clients.
BHSPitMonkey
on July 6, 2012
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Technically, Writely built that editor, and Google acquired Writely.
kylemathews
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Google Spreadsheets predates the Writely purchase and in any case, that purchase was in 2006, 6 years ago, so almost certainly Google Docs is 2-3 code rewrites past whatever the Writely team wrote.
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