[JoshMnem]

Programmers should consider the implications of their actions. Using Facebook's libraries support Facebook. If you don't want to support Facebook, you should prefer alternatives to their libraries whenever possible.

- React -> Vue, Mithril, etc.

- React Native -> Weex, NativeScript

- Reason -> Elm, Purescript, Scala.js, Typescript

- etc.

[TomMarius]

How exactly using a library supports them?

[mygo]

They benefit from other developers using it or they wouldn’t go through the trouble of making it accessible outside of the company.

Access to good talent runs try. Maybe you grow a team of highly talented developers using Facebook’s stack. Facebook is more capable of recruiting them since they’re already familiar with some of Facebook’s stack.

[TomMarius]

Yes, but the benefit is not from people just using the library.

[JoshMnem]

There are interesting reasons why companies expend a lot of resources on free stuff for programmers. If it didn't have a beneficial effect, they wouldn't do it.

[TomMarius]

Yes, but the benefit is not from people just using the library.

[JoshMnem]

What do you mean?