News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on LightSpeed: Rewriting Messenger’s codebase for a faster, smaller, simpler app. Parent comment

Re:LightSpeed: Rewriting Messenger’s codebase for a faster, ... by derefr on Monday March 02, 2020 @05:10PM (#22469578)
It's an inner-platform effect, certainly, but not one FB asked for. If they were allowed by the app-stores to factor their app into separate "plugins" that were auto-installed when a friend used them in a chat, the way iMessage does, they'd probably do that. But they're not allowed to have their own seamless plugin ecosystem, so into the monolith everything goes.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:LightSpeed: Rewriting Messenger’s codebase for a faster, ... by _bxg1 on Monday March 02, 2020 @05:33PM (#22469781)
No, they specifically used Messenger as a way of pushing all of those different things on its massive install-base. Anything that distances them from the user in any way would compromise on that objective.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:LightSpeed: Rewriting Messenger’s codebase for a faster, ... by dmos62 on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @03:35AM (#22472847)
Facebook and all the rest benefit from developing closed ecosystems that others can't benefit from. It's not a coincidence that their systems are systems-within-systems.
[ Parent | on HN ]