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Is it just me, or does Facebook seem to create new competing tools and technologies more often than the other majors? My inner-cynic makes me feel like everyon
by beefsack 10y ago
Is it just me, or does Facebook seem to create new competing tools and technologies more often than the other majors?
My inner-cynic makes me feel like everyone at Facebook is really young, as I've noticed a trait of inexperienced developers is to try to create new things over finding and improving existing tools.
In reality it could be something as simple as Facebook releasing more FOSS software than others, or maybe their releases having more visibility.
Either way, feels like Facebook like to pave their own way, for better or worse.
- cpojer 10y agoWe don't think this way. We needed to solve this problem for Facebook, explored alternatives and made the case to build Yarn. We work at Facebook to solve Facebook's engineering challenges; when we can collaborate with other companies and the open source community, that's an added bonus.
- dacjames 10y agoThat mindset would seem to explain why Facebook creates more competing technologies than other players.
- nmblackburn 10y agoThey absolutely do, it's all a big game to see who can get the biggest market share.