[zapita]

> Its probably too late though and people are moving off of it to the next javascript framework.

But is there a viable alternative with the same level of features and ecosystem momentum?

GraphQL and React Native, in particular, seem well positioned to dominate their respective niches. That gives React a big advantage, which might counteract the licensing issues, no?

[zitterbewegung]

If that were true then why are they changing the licence at all?

They have tooling and are well positioned but what they need is big players to also back them so that people are more incentive to buy in. That is where moving the licence to MIT makes sense.

[pbalau]

To buy in for what? If literally everybody apart Facebook stops using React, the project will still go on because it powers a shitload of FB properties.

[SOLAR_FIELDS]

But then they wouldn't get the free labor of the community.

[zapita]

I think we are saying the same thing. Which part of what I said do you disagree with?

[irrational]

>But is there a viable alternative with the same level of features and ecosystem momentum?

Does it matter? At some point something else will come along and React will go the way of jQuery. And then something else will come along and supplant whatever supplanted React.

[qaq]

Yes because if I need to build something right now it does not really help me that there will be something in the future to replace React.