I've been saying this for years. Capital is distorting science and technology. The React ecosystem succeeded mostly because it was backed by and associated with

I've been saying this for years. Capital is distorting science and technology. The React ecosystem succeeded mostly because it was backed by and associated with Facebook. Most popular tools these days are popular because of some social or business connection to a large pile of capital. There are a lot of amazing tools which are not popular because they are not connected to capital. But those tools are great precisely because they are not connected to capital. Too much capital invariably leads to overengineering. For example, if you consider the PHP Hiphop compiler by Facebook. It tooks years to create it. It's an over engineered solution that did not need to exist. They could easily have rewritten their software in a different language instead if they really cared about saving a bit of CPU. The speedup which HipHop provided was a constant factor. In fact, they could probably have achieved a higher speedup with a simple rewrite even in PHP without HipHop (with just simple algorithm optimizations). Corporations are extremely innefficient. Their main purpose is to create useless jobs.