Is React impacted by Meta layoff?

If the React team was impacted, I imagine, given half of the core React team is already there, Vercel would scoop up the rest of the talent if they were interested in working at Vercel.

I don't think React is going anywhere given its bigger than Meta now.

That said, React Native seems like its the development framework for all Meta applications, I imagine its still core to their business as a result, but that may have changed, I am a few years out of date on this exactly

React used to be a team. It’s an org now. While someone from the org might have been laid off, the org will definitely stay.

Layoffs or no layoffs it is extremely unlikely React will be used as much as it is now 5-10 years from now. It will probably be legacy no one wants to touch anymore. That's the nature of front end development unfortunately.

I hope to be proven wrong btw ...its about time we have a FE framework surviving more than 10 years.

Imagine depending in your web development work on the state of affairs at Facebook / Meta.

(I too am one such dependant; and it grieves me that this is the case).

React is used across the company. I see it kind of like an internal tooling team that just happened to open source the tool. I think it will continue to be maintained

I doubt it. React is a pretty simple library when it comes down to it, it's open source, it's fairly mature and built out as-is, and it's one of the largest contributions to the web that Facebook has ever made. It doesn't take a huge team to work on, and out of all the goings-on at facebook I would assume react is pretty high on the priority list.

I don't think it matters until/unless Meta completely goes bust.

Only time will tell if corporate subsidized open source projects like React will thrive if such an event occurs. There may or may not be enough of a strong and organized community to keep it going. I'd say odds look pretty good for React continuing to thrive though.

The question is will they start charging to use it?:)

React is the greatest thing to come out of Meta, it’s not going anywhere.

My company's yesterday's internal discussion of impending layoffs immediately jumped to "hey, maybe we will get some really good React developers out of this".

Only 5% of the engineering is laid off. The remaining of the layoffs impact recruiting (50%) [0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33525782

You only need to worry if the cost to maintain React becomes greater to Meta than transitioning away from it.

What about LexicalJS? https://lexical.dev/

Or React Native?

It's probably too soon to tell.

Yes, big impact. The deadline for the completion of the beta docs has been pushed back from 2032 to 2046.

Why would React be impacted? React is open source no? Anybody can contribute to React.

Time to use Svelte!

Rrr

Yes

If React isn't good enough for you to use after 9 years, it'll never be good enough.

Yes

I hope so. A fashion mindset coupled with huge numbers of average programmers led to an adoption of this massively bloated framework.

Isn't it borderline arrogance to ask this question? People are impacted and you care about your favorite tool? React will exist, and it open source, if you care, you have options do something about it.

In what way would it be impacted? A large majority of the library's contributions come from the open source community.