Gentle reminder: Linux Foundation is a corporate lobbying group, not a part of the FOSS community
Oh fun
I mean… Are they a bad lobbying group?
That’ll be good, I think? 🤔
One always has to worry. Also there’s lots of surrounding crap like react native. I wonder if that’s included.
Is react still important anyway? I figured something else would be the current hotness by now.
React and RN are still huge. The first sentence of the article also says that RN is being moved too.
From what I understand, React is still very popular and it’s the usual recommendation for those who are learning web dev frameworks.
React Native is not as popular for new projects though, and I usually see people recommending Flutter
Regardless of the current trends, react was the go to for long enough to make it ubiquitous far longer than it deserves to due to corporate technological stagnation. Take Java for example, it’s been in this limbo state for a about a decade-better alternatives for servers exist and are widely adopted, yet it’s still used a lot.
Meta will contribute React, React Native, and JSX (JavaScript XML) to a new React Foundation, part of the Linux Foundation, and said that “it is important that no single company or organization is overrepresented.”
The React Foundation will start with seven corporate members – Amazon, Callstack, Expo, Meta, Microsoft, Software Mansion, and Vercel – and its responsibilities will include maintaining React’s infrastructure and trademarks, organizing React Conf, and sponsoring the React ecosystem. The first executive director will be Seth Webster, Meta’s head of React.
React, created by Facebook in 2013, is the most popular JavaScript framework. (Facebook changed its name to Meta in 2021.) The most recent State of JavaScript survey reported usage by over 80 percent of respondents. React Native is a cross-platform UI framework based on React, and while it’s not as dominant as web React, Microsoft is a particularly big user. Usage of React is also likely being boosted by increasing deployment of AI coding tools, which in our experience tend to default to React if not prompted to use a different framework.
gross. react is a scourge and should never have been created.
Um. Do you have something against declarative programming?
React is not a full framework
Are they referring here specifically to MVC/MV* frameworks, where React alone offers just the View, or are they referring to a more general notion of what constitutes a “full framework” that I’ve forgotten?
Years ago, I instinctively chose vuejs and nuxtjs, to learn for a project, because they werent react and related to zuckbook. This may change with the new direction. Maybe after a year to see the direction it takes.
With executive director still being a zuckling, it isn’t much different than what it was, is it?
