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When Facebook spends engineering effort to work on React, it's not out of the kindness of their heart, and that's ok. It's still productive and an accomplishmen
by fastball 6y ago
When Facebook spends engineering effort to work on React, it's not out of the kindness of their heart, and that's ok. It's still productive and an accomplishment, it's just productive for a reason that pertains to their business. It is the same here. This tool helps the adoption of Elixir, running Elixir is their business, so yay! But the comment I was replying to implied this is somehow entirely separate from their business, which it's not.
Not really sure how it sounded like I was diminishing the accomplishments of others. How would you have phrased the point?
- mstipetic 6y agoFB has thousands of engineers. It's not that often that a small group of people can both keep the lights running financially and also develop fully featured massive libraries. I'd say that counts as a very productive company.
- fastball 6y agoRight, but again my point is that developing this fully-featured library helps keep the lights on. The two things are not separate as you keep implying. Not disagreeing that they are productive and accomplishing a lot.
- xcambar 6y agoI fully agree on the analysis. I can't say I'd have done a better job at phrasing, but I would have emphasized on the balance between business and contributions, rather than (from my reading) insisting on the business implications mostly.