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In the unlikely scenario of Facebook's demise, how do you think the maintenance of React would transpire? Do you think some other tech company would snatch up the design leads, and pick up the torch? Would it go into its own independent organization?

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There is no demise coming for Facebook.

They'll clean up, grandma, aunty and the school mothers will continue posting and they never even knew there was an issue.

People will soon forget.

> Will MySpace ever lose its monopoly? [2007]

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2007/feb/08/business....

FB is on a whole different level in terms of revenue (and profitability) and users.

While it may be possible that FB fails, there’s not a whole lot of symptoms apparent that it will, unlike MySpace.

People that keep comparing FB to Myspace simply don't understand scale.

Having 2 billion users is not a 1000x better than having 2 million ones. It's more like a million times. The network effect compounds non-linearly.

Facebook (the company) is here to stay. Even if the product is gone, they own 2 other multibillion dollar social networks: Instagram and WhatsApp.

Eventually grandma will cease to exist.

React could easily spin off into its own org funded by donations.

There are a bunch of react-compatible virtual dom alternatives like preact and inferno that I imagine people would switch to.

My bet would be on someone like Expo taking up the reigns and putting in place a way for the community to keep it going.

I think developers will stop using ReactJS long before FB is gone. Look at angular, backbone, JQuery, Adobe Flex and so many others. It's just a framework....

Angular 5 is very popular now. Big teams with data intensive administration dashboards are choosing it over React.

I don't buy it. Vue is eating Angular's lunch, with React leading. https://medium.jonasbandi.net/angular-vs-react-popularity-ea...

I don't buy that. I actually see Angular being USED in big corporate environments. I hear from friends about how their team is USING it.

I hear people TALK a lot about Vue. Nothing against it, I enjoyed my little hobby project in it. But way more people talk about using Vue than actually using it. In no way is it "eating Angular's lunch". This is coming from someone quite critical of Angular.

Vue is great, I love it for my personal projects and it's also fairly common in PHP world but that's it. Angular is very popular in Java world and it works really great if you need a lot of forms. These people usually don't have time talking about it. React is popular everywhere else, especially among bloggers who usually fail to explain why exactly is React better choice.

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