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They poached pretty much the entire react team in order to bet on: - react being the most popular FE library for time to come - gain the user's mindshare as r
by epolanski 4y ago
They poached pretty much the entire react team in order to bet on:
- react being the most popular FE library for time to come
- gain the user's mindshare as react being now a Vercel product (something which is becoming increasingly true)
- users attracted by react and next eventually becoming Vercel customers.
They have also tried or employed several other major library authors in order to position themselves uniquely at the crossroads of major FE software and thus be uniquely positioned to transform those users again in Vercel customers.
I don't judge any of this negatively or positively but that's the case I see.
- kevinak 4y agoThis is just a meme, an overwhelming majority of the React team ar still at Meta.
- epolanski 4y agoA very large chunk of the longest serving and more important jumped ship though.
- KyeRussell 4y agoMore important? Or more famous?
- azangru 4y ago> They poached pretty much the entire react team I remember they got Sebastian :-) Who else?
- capableweb 4y agoGrabbing contributions (commits specifically) between Dec 20, 2021 – Apr 15, 2023 and looking at the workplace of authors (first #20) it seems: - at least 2 (top #2) works at Vercel - at least 4 works at Facebook Edit: but this is just commits for facebook/react, reality might look differently :)
- acemarke 4y agoAndrew Clark just moved over to Vercel. I believe they also got Dominic Gannaway, who used to work on the React team, although he said he'll be working on Svelte compiler stuff now.
- scns 4y ago> Dominic Gannaway Whom React got from InfernoJS
- pier25 4y agoI don't think Dominic ever stopped working on Inferno
- teg4n_ 4y agoDominic is going to work on the Svelte team at Vercel according to his Twitter. https://twitter.com/trueadm/status/1640761270566633472?s=20 https://twitter.com/trueadm/status/1640761270566633472?s=20