Facebook retires Nuclide Atom extension

Post by alex504 » Thu, Dec 13, 2018, 3:40 AM UTC

pandeiro wrote: post #54

vjeux wrote: post #40

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In the past, a new platform required a new language which required a new IDE. Fortunately those days things less tied together. React Native is mostly using JavaScript which can be productively edited with a lot of editors and IDEs. So the fact that Nuclide was there didn't mean that you had to use it (and the vast majority didn't) in order to write React Native.

I find this a little disingenuous, since React and React Native documentation rarely if ever feature code examples in any actual flavor of standard JavaScript and the 'blessed' way of writing React app involves quite a bit of embedded XML (JSX), which editors need to know how to deal with.

Post by chillacy » Thu, Dec 13, 2018, 5:28 AM UTC

saagarjha wrote: post #29

anontechworker wrote: post #5

I went in for an interview recently for the react core team and the guy who interviewed me said Facebook was trying to edge away from open source. He mentioned it’s not worth it to them as much as it was before. Too much to maintain.

I’m surprised to see an engineer admit this during an interview (assuming it is true, sophiebits has mentioned that it she doesn’t agree with this). Presumably this is the time when you talk about how much cool open source work you do?

Post by dizzy3gg » Thu, Dec 13, 2018, 7:15 AM UTC

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sophiebits wrote: post #19

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I think people on our team use VSCode, Sublime Text, and Vim. Almost all editors these days have good support for React, so we don't have any official one (nor do we feel the need to). VSCode has particularly good integration with TypeScript, so perhaps choose it if you are otherwise undecided.

Building an app with react native at the moment, the team uses VSCode & WebStorm. Why would TypeScript be the deciding factor?

Post by imbiased » Thu, Dec 13, 2018, 10:56 AM UTC

PurpleRamen wrote: post #64

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A shame, in an ideal world there would be the benefit of outside contributions that made less internal work needed, so overall would be a win for Facebook. But probably this is related to Atom itself being taken over by VSCode, the number of users (and maybe contributors) appears to be going down. I wonder if Atom Xray will ever come out https://github.com/atom/xray

That is only true if the outside contributes things that facebooks actually needs and if they are on a level of quality which facebooks wants. Often enough projects grow beyond the initial goal and at the end the maintainer is buried in meaningless work (for his own goals) and can't focus anymore on his own important things.