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Re:LightSpeed: Rewriting Messenger’s codebase for a faster, ... by jeswin on Monday March 02, 2020 @10:44PM (#22471610)
Thank you for saying this. The overwhelming majority of comments on this thread are pedestrian - as if FBs engineers have been making decisions out of naivety, incompetence or self interest.
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Re:LightSpeed: Rewriting Messenger’s codebase for a faster, ... by Cthulhu_ on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @04:09AM (#22472990)
It might look that way in hindsight, but hindsight is easy. As is armchair theorizing about the competence of other developers.

Most people (including myself) will probably never see a >500K loc application or a project with >100 developers working on it. Biggest ones I've worked with had around 30-50 odd developers?

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Re:LightSpeed: Rewriting Messenger’s codebase for a faster, ... by otabdeveloper4 on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @04:42AM (#22473104)
> as if FBs engineers have been making decisions out of naivety,

No.

> incompetence

Yes.

> or self interest

Yes.

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Re:LightSpeed: Rewriting Messenger’s codebase for a faster, ... by Aeolun on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @05:25AM (#22473279)
Definitely the last one. They’re working for Facebook after all.

That said, I’m happy with React.

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