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I would love to hear from one of the Adobe team members about this. Are there separate React teams and WC teams? What’s that dynamic like? It feels like Photoshop on the web has been framed as ‘powered by web components’, rather than WCs being a minor detail. This post mentions “islands of React code” as if React is a legacy thing they have to put up with https://web.dev/ps-on-the-web/

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I work on React Aria. Adobe is a big company and there are many teams using different technologies. In general, some very new parts of creative cloud chose to use web components, but the majority of teams are using React, and I don't foresee that changing anytime soon. It's definitely not a company wide shift if you got that impression from the Photoshop article. Ideally we'd collaborate more, but... big company silos.

Thanks for the response and great work on React Aria. That makes sense. To be honest the impression probably came more from tweets about the article than the article itself https://mobile.twitter.com/search?q=https%3A%2F%2Fweb.dev%2F...

I can see the appeal of web components when your interop issues are as large Adobe’s must be. On the other hand if huge portions of your apps are canvas / wasm then web components’ DOM-centric component model might feel awkward or constraining

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