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Re:Clean Front End Architecture with SvelteKit by epolanski on Monday April 17, 2023 @03:38AM (#35597793)
They poached pretty much the entire react team in order to bet on:

- react being the most popular FE library for time to come

- gain the user's mindshare as react being now a Vercel product (something which is becoming increasingly true)

- users attracted by react and next eventually becoming Vercel customers.

They have also tried or employed several other major library authors in order to position themselves uniquely at the crossroads of major FE software and thus be uniquely positioned to transform those users again in Vercel customers.

I don't judge any of this negatively or positively but that's the case I see.

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Re:Clean Front End Architecture with SvelteKit by kevinak on Monday April 17, 2023 @05:19AM (#35598424)
This is just a meme, an overwhelming majority of the React team ar still at Meta.
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Re:Clean Front End Architecture with SvelteKit by epolanski on Monday April 17, 2023 @06:33AM (#35598924)
A very large chunk of the longest serving and more important jumped ship though.
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Re:Clean Front End Architecture with SvelteKit by KyeRussell on Monday April 17, 2023 @06:41AM (#35598970)
More important? Or more famous?
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Re:Clean Front End Architecture with SvelteKit by azangru on Monday April 17, 2023 @07:01AM (#35599094)
> They poached pretty much the entire react team

I remember they got Sebastian :-) Who else?

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Re:Clean Front End Architecture with SvelteKit by capableweb on Monday April 17, 2023 @08:34AM (#35599756)
Grabbing contributions (commits specifically) between Dec 20, 2021 – Apr 15, 2023 and looking at the workplace of authors (first #20) it seems:

- at least 2 (top #2) works at Vercel

- at least 4 works at Facebook

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Re:Clean Front End Architecture with SvelteKit by acemarke on Monday April 17, 2023 @11:16AM (#35602033)
Andrew Clark just moved over to Vercel. I believe they also got Dominic Gannaway, who used to work on the React team, although he said he'll be working on Svelte compiler stuff now.
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Re:Clean Front End Architecture with SvelteKit by scns on Monday April 17, 2023 @11:39AM (#35602364)
> Dominic Gannaway

Whom React got from InfernoJS

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Re:Clean Front End Architecture with SvelteKit by pier25 on Monday April 17, 2023 @04:34PM (#35606224)
I don't think Dominic ever stopped working on Inferno
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Re:Clean Front End Architecture with SvelteKit by teg4n_ on Monday April 17, 2023 @12:01PM (#35602675)
Dominic is going to work on the Svelte team at Vercel according to his Twitter. https://twitter.com/trueadm/status/1640761270566633472?s=20
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