There is also no shortage of experienced engineering talent.
Yes, but no. Japan has many, many, many talented engineers. Comparatively few of them work in web applications. Of those, most work on corporate IT apps serving the needs of Japan's multi-nationals.
To the extent that there is a coherent body of practice involved in the design, creation, operation, and evolution ofmodern web applications outside of the enterprise, that body is largely understudied here. Everything from modern web frameworks to metrics to split testing to making stuff pretty (many Japanese sites are stuck in early 2000 web design, partially a function of supporting obsolete mobile clients and partially of underuse of modern technologies) is underdone here.
My views are partially colored due to living in Japan's answer to Kansas. It may be better in the trendy Tokyo startup scene.
That's rather ironic considering that the creator of Ruby is Japanese. I mean, sure, Merb was created by EY people; Sinatra was created by a bunch of folks working for Heroku; and Rails was spearheaded by a legendarily foul-mouthed Dane, but none of those "trendy" web frameworks would've been possible without Yukihiro Matsumoto.
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There is also no shortage of experienced engineering talent.
Yes, but no. Japan has many, many, many talented engineers. Comparatively few of them work in web applications. Of those, most work on corporate IT apps serving the needs of Japan's multi-nationals.
To the extent that there is a coherent body of practice involved in the design, creation, operation, and evolution ofmodern web applications outside of the enterprise, that body is largely understudied here. Everything from modern web frameworks to metrics to split testing to making stuff pretty (many Japanese sites are stuck in early 2000 web design, partially a function of supporting obsolete mobile clients and partially of underuse of modern technologies) is underdone here.
My views are partially colored due to living in Japan's answer to Kansas. It may be better in the trendy Tokyo startup scene.
That's rather ironic considering that the creator of Ruby is Japanese. I mean, sure, Merb was created by EY people; Sinatra was created by a bunch of folks working for Heroku; and Rails was spearheaded by a legendarily foul-mouthed Dane, but none of those "trendy" web frameworks would've been possible without Yukihiro Matsumoto.
And so again, we have really sharp engineers producing great work, but it's just not "sexy" enough for web 2.0 startups on its own.