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Comment by alex_suzuki | Hacker News Reader

Is it just me or are we experiencing an uptick in high-quality, sophisticated software projects being open-sourced by FAANG companies?

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It’s great how much open source infrastructure software has come out of FAANG in the past decade. Between Kubernetes, react, Kafka, etc it’s wild how much of my tech stack is open source software developed by people at large tech companies. It’s also great PR for the companies.

Heh, I implore you to consider the engineers-eye view. We're tech geeks inside or outside of FAANG, with all the usual incentives. I've been the tech lead on this project for 5 years, through 2 companies, and of course I hope someone finds it useful and chooses to contribute.

I'd like to think we could help someone somehow with public relations, but I don't think we can ;-). Actually, I don't think any of the big techs are leaning all that much into recruiting right now though....

Hey, I totally rewrote my comment after reading your response. Thanks for engaging - hearing from the project author made me realize I was acting like a cynical asshole. Congrats on Hermit and thanks for supporting free software.

Facebook/Meta in particular seem to be hitting the front page with nerd-bait research. I suspect it is indeed part of a public relations strategy.

And I hate to say it, but it's working on me. I've seen some really cool projects come out of Facebook lately!

Are we? PyTorch, React, etc. have been around for ages.

React? He mentioned high quality. React is a mess, especially when hooks became dominant.

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