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Does anyone else get the feeling this survey is designed/run (or at least "sponsored") by the Facebook engineering team...? It's heavily biased towards React, G
by nelsonic 8y ago
Does anyone else get the feeling this survey is designed/run (or at least "sponsored") by the Facebook engineering team...?
It's heavily biased towards React, GraphQL & co. with a token mention of Vue.js and Angular so as to be less obvious.
Of course "the state of JS" is going to say "everyone is using React" if the questions are designed to collect that biased data...
- Keyframe 8y agoWhat do they have to gain from it?
- Apaec 8y agoDeveloper mindshare.
- nelsonic 8y ago@Keyframe React/Relay/GraphQL/etc, are Fb's "re-interpretation" of several Open Source technologies that already existed in the community e.g: Elm & RethinkDB. Facebook gains each time a developer uses their "stack" because they extend the Fb ecosystem and widen the "talent pool" of potential engineers who can work on Fb's data-harvesting and Ad machines. So when a "survey" is designed to promote the Fb tools by people who use Fb tools (scroll to the bottom of https://stateofjs.com https://stateofjs.com ...) I cannot help but be a little "skeptical". Facebook are trying to OWN the JS dev ecosystem just like try to OWN everyone's personal data! And they are "getting away with it" because no other (major) Tech company is doing anything to challenge them. :-(
- Keyframe 8y agoMakes sense when you put it like that. Question here is why no other major tech company is doing anything to challenge that. Microsoft might be the one to step in, considering their JS involvement now.
- Apaec 8y agoI have the same thoughts when seeing comments like "I switched to VSCode from Vim and I couldn't be happier". Almost all software development articles on HN are feeling more like advertising than honest opinions nowadays.
- jkoudys 8y agoIf it makes you feel better, I shat all over flow and praised typescript.