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Re:React Native and Yoga Both Given MIT Licence by Facebook by JoshMnem on Saturday February 17, 2018 @01:53PM (#16402066)
Programmers should consider the implications of their actions. Using Facebook's libraries support Facebook. If you don't want to support Facebook, you should prefer alternatives to their libraries whenever possible.

- React -> Vue, Mithril, etc.

- React Native -> Weex, NativeScript

- Reason -> Elm, Purescript, Scala.js, Typescript

- etc.

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Re:React Native and Yoga Both Given MIT Licence by Facebook by TomMarius on Saturday February 17, 2018 @04:02PM (#16402672)
How exactly using a library supports them?
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Re:React Native and Yoga Both Given MIT Licence by Facebook by mygo on Saturday February 17, 2018 @07:42PM (#16403729)
They benefit from other developers using it or they wouldn’t go through the trouble of making it accessible outside of the company.

Access to good talent runs try. Maybe you grow a team of highly talented developers using Facebook’s stack. Facebook is more capable of recruiting them since they’re already familiar with some of Facebook’s stack.

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Re:React Native and Yoga Both Given MIT Licence by Facebook by TomMarius on Sunday February 18, 2018 @03:05AM (#16404999)
Yes, but the benefit is not from people just using the library.
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Re:React Native and Yoga Both Given MIT Licence by Facebook by JoshMnem on Saturday February 17, 2018 @10:00PM (#16404210)
There are interesting reasons why companies expend a lot of resources on free stuff for programmers. If it didn't have a beneficial effect, they wouldn't do it.
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Re:React Native and Yoga Both Given MIT Licence by Facebook by TomMarius on Sunday February 18, 2018 @03:05AM (#16404997)
Yes, but the benefit is not from people just using the library.
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Re:React Native and Yoga Both Given MIT Licence by Facebook by JoshMnem on Sunday February 18, 2018 @10:45AM (#16406540)
What do you mean?
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