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In the unlikely scenario of Facebook's demise, how do you think the maintenance of React would transpire? Do you think some other tech company would snatch up
by swalsh 9y ago
In the unlikely scenario of Facebook's demise, how do you think the maintenance of React would transpire? Do you think some other tech company would snatch up the design leads, and pick up the torch? Would it go into its own independent organization?
- hysan 9y agoMy bet would be on someone like Expo taking up the reigns and putting in place a way for the community to keep it going.
- matte_black 9y agoReact could easily spin off into its own org funded by donations.
- hoodoof 9y agoThere is no demise coming for Facebook. They'll clean up, grandma, aunty and the school mothers will continue posting and they never even knew there was an issue. People will soon forget.
- navls 9y ago> Will MySpace ever lose its monopoly? [2007] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2007/feb/08/business.comment https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2007/feb/08/business....
- Bahamut 9y agoFB is on a whole different level in terms of revenue (and profitability) and users. While it may be possible that FB fails, there’s not a whole lot of symptoms apparent that it will, unlike MySpace.
- hashbig 9y agoPeople that keep comparing FB to Myspace simply don't understand scale. Having 2 billion users is not a 1000x better than having 2 million ones. It's more like a million times. The network effect compounds non-linearly. Facebook (the company) is here to stay. Even if the product is gone, they own 2 other multibillion dollar social networks: Instagram and WhatsApp.
- chrischen 9y agoEventually grandma will cease to exist.
- plopz 9y agoThere are a bunch of react-compatible virtual dom alternatives like preact and inferno that I imagine people would switch to.
- myth_drannon 9y agoI think developers will stop using ReactJS long before FB is gone. Look at angular, backbone, JQuery, Adobe Flex and so many others. It's just a framework....
- adam_sohn 9y agoAngular 5 is very popular now. Big teams with data intensive administration dashboards are choosing it over React.
- aioprisan 9y agoI don't buy it. Vue is eating Angular's lunch, with React leading. https://medium.jonasbandi.net/angular-vs-react-popularity-ea2659308cd5 https://medium.jonasbandi.net/angular-vs-react-popularity-ea...
- plexicle 9y agoI don't buy that. I actually see Angular being USED in big corporate environments. I hear from friends about how their team is USING it. I hear people TALK a lot about Vue. Nothing against it, I enjoyed my little hobby project in it. But way more people talk about using Vue than actually using it. In no way is it "eating Angular's lunch". This is coming from someone quite critical of Angular.
- cztomsik 9y agoVue is great, I love it for my personal projects and it's also fairly common in PHP world but that's it. Angular is very popular in Java world and it works really great if you need a lot of forms. These people usually don't have time talking about it. React is popular everywhere else, especially among bloggers who usually fail to explain why exactly is React better choice.