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I don't consider the fact that a large company uses something for their main product is enough to actually make it future-proof. Previous instances of that pat

I don't consider the fact that a large company uses something for their main product is enough to actually make it future-proof. Previous instances of that pattern: - three20 (used in FB ios app https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three20 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three20) - GWT - Angular is actually a similar instance of that problem, to some extent If "large company" switches their goal at some point, then you're still alone. Currently I'm kind of more confident (in some way) to the future stability of Vue, than of React (just a gut feeling, time will tell!).

vosper 9y ago
GWT was first released 11 years ago, the most recent update was less than a month ago. If that's not an example of future-proof (for web technologies) I don't know what is. Whether it's kept up with the state of the art I don't know, but I think that's a different thing.
- thibaut_barrere 9y ago
  I was referring to http://www.gwtproject.org/release-notes.html http://www.gwtproject.org/release-notes.html - e.g. the release hole that happened between 2.7.0 and 2.8.0 (2 years). Some clients actually decided to stop using GWT at that time, because of that.
baxtr 9y ago
Absolutely. Look at google for instance and all the things they've stopped supporting. I find the argument also quite disturbing because this will add to the already existing monopolies of these "large companies".
plorkyeran 9y ago
Three20 was made obsolete by the useful parts of it getting built into the platform SDK, and yet it was still maintained and kept in a working state for longer than it was ever actually useful.
- thibaut_barrere 9y ago
  I know that - but the fact is that for one client of mine, the app was initially build on three20, then they had to literally rebuild it from scratch as they realised that three20 was becoming obsolete. One of the reasons for the choice was the FB branding associated as something that can be trusted!

vosper 9y ago

GWT was first released 11 years ago, the most recent update was less than a month ago. If that's not an example of future-proof (for web technologies) I don't know what is. Whether it's kept up with the state of the art I don't know, but I think that's a different thing.

thibaut_barrere 9y ago
I was referring to http://www.gwtproject.org/release-notes.html http://www.gwtproject.org/release-notes.html - e.g. the release hole that happened between 2.7.0 and 2.8.0 (2 years). Some clients actually decided to stop using GWT at that time, because of that.

baxtr 9y ago

Absolutely. Look at google for instance and all the things they've stopped supporting. I find the argument also quite disturbing because this will add to the already existing monopolies of these "large companies".

plorkyeran 9y ago

Three20 was made obsolete by the useful parts of it getting built into the platform SDK, and yet it was still maintained and kept in a working state for longer than it was ever actually useful.

thibaut_barrere 9y ago
I know that - but the fact is that for one client of mine, the app was initially build on three20, then they had to literally rebuild it from scratch as they realised that three20 was becoming obsolete. One of the reasons for the choice was the FB branding associated as something that can be trusted!