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  - brittney-postma
episode: 49
recording_date: December 1, 2021
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excerpt: We sit down with Miško Hevery, Inventor of Angular, to talk about a new framework he is building called Qwik. We talk about Miško's past experience and then we deep dive into Qwik.
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start: December 8, 2021
title: Qwik the HTML First Framework
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdIZh42etYk
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### Questions

1. How much fun did you have making AngularJS and Angular?
2. Why did you decide to leave Google and move to the next project**?**
3. What is Party Town**?** [https://github.com/BuilderIO/partytown](https://github.com/BuilderIO/partytown)
4. Tell me all about Qwik. [https://github.com/builderio/qwik](https://github.com/builderio/qwik)
5. Will anyone who knows HTML and JavaScript be able to learn how to use Qwik?
6. Qwik vs Islands Architecture
7. Is Qwik shipping a Framework?
8. Lets compare Next.js and React with Qwik (SvelteKit, Next)
9. How long have you been thinking about Qwik?
   [https://youtu.be/-kYtw3CSe6s?t=795](https://youtu.be/-kYtw3CSe6s?t=795) - Talking about Qwik, without the name qwik.

## Additional Links

- [https://www.builder.io/blog/introducing-qwik-framework](https://www.builder.io/blog/introducing-qwik-framework)
- [https://dev.to/mhevery/a-first-look-at-qwik-the-html-first-framework-af](https://dev.to/mhevery/a-first-look-at-qwik-the-html-first-framework-af)
- [https://github.com/BuilderIO/partytown](https://github.com/BuilderIO/partytown)
- [https://jasonformat.com/islands-architecture/](https://jasonformat.com/islands-architecture/)
