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In Reactjs, the Ant Design library is built and maintained by a Chinese company called Ant Financial: https://ant.design/ https://ant.design/ I believe they're

In Reactjs, the Ant Design library is built and maintained by a Chinese company called Ant Financial: https://ant.design/ https://ant.design/ I believe they're the second most popular React UI library on Github by stars I believe the Chinese web world is pretty big on using Vue.js, Golang and React from what the top Chinese tech companies talk about in their blogs Also I can read Simplified Chinese and the most popular Github repos in Chinese seem to be individual blogs, tech interview help and like frontend/backend guides. Github seems to be almost used as a content-based social network by Chinese users based around blogs and tech help See: https://qz.com/1280215/four-of-the-top-25-github-projects-are-written-in-chinese-six-contain-no-code/ https://qz.com/1280215/four-of-the-top-25-github-projects-ar...

_bxg1 6y ago
I think GitHub gets used there as a social network because it isn't fully censored. I've read about Chinese using it to share/collaborate on unsanctioned information because it can't just be blocked: unlike Facebook and Twitter, it's too important to their software industry.
- p410n3 6y ago
  Trivia: This effect is called colleteral freedom https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collateral_freedom https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collateral_freedom
- alisonatwork 6y ago
  This is true, but only as far as people can keep their Github accounts anonymous. A couple months ago the government tracked down three people who had been using Github to share censored content and arrested them[1]. A whole bunch of other repos shut down quick smart after that for fear of more arrests. We can only hope some people outside the country made local clones. [1] https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/04/27/china-free-covid-19-activists-citizen-journalists https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/04/27/china-free-covid-19-acti...
stonecharioteer 6y ago
I have used Ant Design and I've never used bootstrap. I found Ant well made and well designed. It used to suffer from a lack of English documentation but that has since been fixed. It is quite beautiful.
TechBro8615 6y ago
Ant-design is nice, but I refuse to use it because I do not want to support Ant Financial and its CCP affiliated companies.
- omniscient_oce 6y ago
  Last time I tried out Ant Design (about two years ago) I also tried out BizCharts, alibabas library for plotting charts. However, I noticed that it was making requests to kcart.alipay.com servers whenever it was loaded in some weird obfuscated code. Long story short, there was a microscopically tiny mention of it on the Docs in the Mandarin only section. Thus, whilst not the exact same repo, it was part of the same ecosystem of libraries and I have not touched one of them since. Does anyone know if they've made the 'anonymous telemetry' opt-in now?
  - TechBro8615 6y ago
    Similarly, but more innocuously, there was an incident where they silently pushed code with a Christmas “easter egg” that added snow to buttons. [0] https://blog.shunliang.io/frontend/2018/12/25/the-ant-design-xmas-egg-that-went-wrong.html https://blog.shunliang.io/frontend/2018/12/25/the-ant-design...
ksec 6y ago
>a Chinese company called Ant Financial Ant Financial is under Alibaba. So yes it is pretty big.

_bxg1 6y ago

I think GitHub gets used there as a social network because it isn't fully censored. I've read about Chinese using it to share/collaborate on unsanctioned information because it can't just be blocked: unlike Facebook and Twitter, it's too important to their software industry.

p410n3 6y ago
Trivia: This effect is called colleteral freedom https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collateral_freedom https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collateral_freedom
alisonatwork 6y ago
This is true, but only as far as people can keep their Github accounts anonymous. A couple months ago the government tracked down three people who had been using Github to share censored content and arrested them[1]. A whole bunch of other repos shut down quick smart after that for fear of more arrests. We can only hope some people outside the country made local clones. [1] https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/04/27/china-free-covid-19-activists-citizen-journalists https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/04/27/china-free-covid-19-acti...

stonecharioteer 6y ago

I have used Ant Design and I've never used bootstrap. I found Ant well made and well designed. It used to suffer from a lack of English documentation but that has since been fixed. It is quite beautiful.

TechBro8615 6y ago

Ant-design is nice, but I refuse to use it because I do not want to support Ant Financial and its CCP affiliated companies.

omniscient_oce 6y ago
Last time I tried out Ant Design (about two years ago) I also tried out BizCharts, alibabas library for plotting charts. However, I noticed that it was making requests to kcart.alipay.com servers whenever it was loaded in some weird obfuscated code. Long story short, there was a microscopically tiny mention of it on the Docs in the Mandarin only section. Thus, whilst not the exact same repo, it was part of the same ecosystem of libraries and I have not touched one of them since. Does anyone know if they've made the 'anonymous telemetry' opt-in now?
- TechBro8615 6y ago
  Similarly, but more innocuously, there was an incident where they silently pushed code with a Christmas “easter egg” that added snow to buttons. [0] https://blog.shunliang.io/frontend/2018/12/25/the-ant-design-xmas-egg-that-went-wrong.html https://blog.shunliang.io/frontend/2018/12/25/the-ant-design...

ksec 6y ago

>a Chinese company called Ant Financial Ant Financial is under Alibaba. So yes it is pretty big.