Whether or not that means that the fundamental tension between Facebook and the web is shifting - I don't know … but I somehow doubt it. It's more likely a feature that has a particularly high value from React's perspective to make it worth the effort to contribute.
He inferred that Google's deep ties to the web (and standards bodies) make the web, as a platform, a risk that Facebook does not want to be exposed to. He says that React is a step toward abstracting away the browser.
So the engineers at Facebook in a stroke of maniacal genius said “to hell with the W3C and to hell with best practices!” and decided to completely abstract away the browser
Coding is as much a matter of personal growth as it is of logic and control-flow. I keep patience, curiosity, & exuberance in the same toolbox as vim and git.
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Great blogs, but... techies only look at technology.
Sure, I am a techie too, and bashed React in my latest Dev.to post.
But foremost, in the WHATWG, and effectivly on Web Components,
I see 4 companies working together. And getting better at it, every feature...
Something the like I have never seen in my 31 Internet years.
If you follow the WICG discussions, do not only read the what,
read between the lines, how engineers from those 4 companies, communicate.
You can't but wonder... would this cooperation have been possible with Jobs at the helm...
Now it is up to Google to stop pushing their developments, and focus on joint efforts only.
AMP should have been a good learning Lit (in its current its-a-Google-party form) has no future.
We want a good BaseClass in the Browser, not one we have to load.
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Just to note that Facebook started contributing to the Web API:
Whether or not that means that the fundamental tension between Facebook and the web is shifting - I don't know … but I somehow doubt it. It's more likely a feature that has a particularly high value from React's perspective to make it worth the effort to contribute.
A Different Kind of War
Modern Web Development
The Web of Native Apps II: Google and Facebook
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Great blogs, but... techies only look at technology.
Sure, I am a techie too, and bashed React in my latest Dev.to post.
But foremost, in the WHATWG, and effectivly on Web Components,
I see 4 companies working together. And getting better at it, every feature...
Something the like I have never seen in my 31 Internet years.
If you follow the WICG discussions, do not only read the what,
read between the lines, how engineers from those 4 companies, communicate.
You can't but wonder... would this cooperation have been possible with Jobs at the helm...
Now it is up to Google to stop pushing their developments, and focus on joint efforts only.
AMP should have been a good learning Lit (in its current its-a-Google-party form) has no future.
We want a good BaseClass in the Browser, not one we have to load.