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What's new in Facebook open source

51 points by samber 10y ago

danso 10y ago
FWIW, the Changelog just published an excellent interview with James Pearce, the head of open source at Facebook. Contains a lot of interesting insight about how and why they choose to go open source, and some of the logistical details, such as how they manage React so that the version used internally is the same as the one published to Github while dealing with community pull requests. https://changelog.com/211/ https://changelog.com/211/
qwertyuiop924 10y ago
Man, FB is more prolithic in open source than Google. And a lot of their code is better, and more useful. Who would have thought?
- acchow 10y ago
  Curious what kind of developer you are. Android? iOS? Machine Learning? Web? Databases? Other infra?
  - qwertyuiop924 10y ago
    Eh. I'm a hobbyist, so I dabble in a lot of stuff. Thus far, I've primarily done some moderate/heavy scripting, a few command-line apps, a TK app, and a bit of web stuff. If google's putting out a ton of stuff in Machine Learning, I may not be getting it. Sorry if that disapoints you.
    - aaronbrethorst 10y ago
      TensorFlow? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TensorFlow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TensorFlow
    - altstar 10y ago
      It is interesting. Wonder how you are making the call that FB code is of higher quality.
      - qwertyuiop924 10y ago
        I didn't mean higher quality. I mean more useful. TensorFlow is useful to some, but projects like React, React Native, Immutablejs, and MVC - wait, no, sorry - Flux, hhvm, flow, jest, and others, are overall more used by more people than any google project. FB's Javascript projects in particular - Which many of the above are - and react specifically, have changed client-side development for the better. While Google is an idea factory, very litte of the code they put out is useful to most of us not doing AI work.
        webmaven 10y ago
        Angular?: https://angularjs.org https://angularjs.org Polymer?: https://www.polymer-project.org https://www.polymer-project.org Yeoman?: http://yeoman.io http://yeoman.io
        qwertyuiop924 10y ago
        Angular sucks. I'm just going to say it. It's a bad model, a bad system. It has only contributed to the the discussion of how applications should work, except as an example of how not to do it. Polymer is a dog, and it's massive. It was built around a technology that looks increasingly like it won't arrive any time soon in a satisfactory form. Yeoman is nothing new. But ultimately I'm just using No True Scottsman at this point, so the correct thing to do is admit that I'm wrong, and google's open source releases are more substantial than I thought. Which is what I'm doing.
        throwaway932847 10y ago
        https://developers.google.com/open-source/projects https://developers.google.com/open-source/projects

51 points by samber 10y ago

danso 10y ago

FWIW, the Changelog just published an excellent interview with James Pearce, the head of open source at Facebook. Contains a lot of interesting insight about how and why they choose to go open source, and some of the logistical details, such as how they manage React so that the version used internally is the same as the one published to Github while dealing with community pull requests. https://changelog.com/211/ https://changelog.com/211/

qwertyuiop924 10y ago

Man, FB is more prolithic in open source than Google. And a lot of their code is better, and more useful. Who would have thought?

acchow 10y ago
Curious what kind of developer you are. Android? iOS? Machine Learning? Web? Databases? Other infra?
- qwertyuiop924 10y ago
  Eh. I'm a hobbyist, so I dabble in a lot of stuff. Thus far, I've primarily done some moderate/heavy scripting, a few command-line apps, a TK app, and a bit of web stuff. If google's putting out a ton of stuff in Machine Learning, I may not be getting it. Sorry if that disapoints you.
  - aaronbrethorst 10y ago
    TensorFlow? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TensorFlow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TensorFlow
  - altstar 10y ago
    It is interesting. Wonder how you are making the call that FB code is of higher quality.
    - qwertyuiop924 10y ago
      I didn't mean higher quality. I mean more useful. TensorFlow is useful to some, but projects like React, React Native, Immutablejs, and MVC - wait, no, sorry - Flux, hhvm, flow, jest, and others, are overall more used by more people than any google project. FB's Javascript projects in particular - Which many of the above are - and react specifically, have changed client-side development for the better. While Google is an idea factory, very litte of the code they put out is useful to most of us not doing AI work.
      - webmaven 10y ago
        Angular?: https://angularjs.org https://angularjs.org Polymer?: https://www.polymer-project.org https://www.polymer-project.org Yeoman?: http://yeoman.io http://yeoman.io
        qwertyuiop924 10y ago
        Angular sucks. I'm just going to say it. It's a bad model, a bad system. It has only contributed to the the discussion of how applications should work, except as an example of how not to do it. Polymer is a dog, and it's massive. It was built around a technology that looks increasingly like it won't arrive any time soon in a satisfactory form. Yeoman is nothing new. But ultimately I'm just using No True Scottsman at this point, so the correct thing to do is admit that I'm wrong, and google's open source releases are more substantial than I thought. Which is what I'm doing.
      - throwaway932847 10y ago
        https://developers.google.com/open-source/projects https://developers.google.com/open-source/projects