Re:Yarn – A new package manager for JavaScript
by cpojer on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @08:50PM
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We don't think this way. We needed to solve this problem for Facebook, explored alternatives and made the case to build Yarn. We work at Facebook to solve Facebook's engineering challenges; when we can collaborate with other companies and the open source community, that's an added bonus.
Re:Yarn – A new package manager for JavaScript
by dacjames on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @09:14PM
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That mindset would seem to explain why Facebook creates more competing technologies than other players.
Re:Yarn – A new package manager for JavaScript
by nmblackburn on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @08:22PM
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They absolutely do, it's all a big game to see who can get the biggest market share.
My inner-cynic makes me feel like everyone at Facebook is really young, as I've noticed a trait of inexperienced developers is to try to create new things over finding and improving existing tools.
In reality it could be something as simple as Facebook releasing more FOSS software than others, or maybe their releases having more visibility.
Either way, feels like Facebook like to pave their own way, for better or worse.