[amasad]

Nuclide replaced FBIDE, the internal pre-setup web IDE that Facebook used. Having a pre-setup environment is a huge productivity boost:

- dev env onboarding takes a minute instead of a week

- employees can code "on the go"

So predictably, if they get rid of Nuclide there needs to be an alternative and doubtful they've built something new because... why.

[vjeux]

Nuclide has always had a ton of value for Facebook itself as we could build a lot of Facebook-specific integrations and ship a new version to all the developers every week. It's now the most used editor at Facebook.

This announcement is about the open source version of Nuclide, which has never received a lot of love and didn't have a lot of adoption.