Meta staffers reportedly spar with Mark Zuckerberg after mass layoffs

Re:Meta staffers reportedly spar with Mark Zuckerberg after ... by CydeWeys on Sunday March 19, 2023 @10:44AM (#35219440)

React and PyTorch are just libraries, with plenty of competition. The industry wouldn't be that different if everyone was instead using Vue or Angular or whatever other frontend JS library would've come along had React not. You're giving Facebook too much credit here. Most developers have never used any of these (me included).

I agree with the pushing up pay point. That was good, though it appears to be ending now.

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Re:Meta staffers reportedly spar with Mark Zuckerberg after ... by rhaway84773 on Sunday March 19, 2023 @10:58AM (#35219620)

React had 2 major contributions which were industry changing on the front end, IMO, and may not have happened or would have happened a lot later without it.

1. Virtual Dom 2. One way data binding

I think one could argue that the virtual DOM wasn’t important, and possibly even led the industry in the wrong direction considering how it’s not as popular, for good reasons, anymore.

One way data binding was huge, however. Every other framework at the time was proudly promoting 2 way data binding. 2 way data binding would be in their website’s hero image and their entire sample app (invariably a todo list app) would be based around promoting the benefits of 2 way data binding.

I think minus React, a switch to one way data binding would have taken much longer, simply because the momentum behind 2 way data binding was so strong.

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