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> I realized React is trying to tame Facebook level of problems and hence their design decision steams from those data points.

Strong agreement!

There's a saying in community organizing and activist circles that goes something like:

"Don't apply the solutions of the butterfly to the problems of the caterpillar."

Imho it's a really important consideration when thinking about scale of movements (and nonprofits... and any community initiative...). This is especially true when "professional" people are always coming in and confidently over-applying their learnings in corporations to thinking about activism (which often, though not always, has very different incentive structures and lifecycles).

I think about this parable often in regards how all these scaled tech companies end up stewarding the developer tools and therefore practices for everyone. And they tend to out-pace and out-broadcast other wonderful tools that could better serve the majority of developer niches.



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