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"Sunsetting" is a very common term (in America, at least) for deprecating or discontinuing something.
by bovermyer 8y ago
"Sunsetting" is a very common term (in America, at least) for deprecating or discontinuing something.
- _Codemonkeyism 8y agoBut from my imperfect understanding if you own the technology/product, not if you just use it. So Facebook may sunset React Native? But I'm no native speaker.
- djtriptych 8y agoNo, you're right. Users can't sunset anything.
- jonbarker 8y agoI believe you are correct, so they could sunset the version of their app built with React Native, but only fb could 'sunset react native'.
- dcow 8y agoThe extra connotation here is that AirBnB was perhaps the most visible/vocal user/proponent of RN after Facebook. They built an entire engineering org on it, etc.
- ummonk 8y agoNative speaker here. You're correct. "Sunsetting" is when the creator slowly phases out manufacturing / support for a product, so FB would need to be the one sunsetting React Native. AirBnB should say they're "transitioning away from" React Native.
- chrisfosterelli 8y agoYeah, this is a very misleading use of sunsetting. They mean "sunsetting at AirBNB", but with the way the title is worded it sounds like AirBNB is shutting down the React Native project.