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by guru_meditation 2728 days ago
IMHO, teams using a certain stack have agency to see that stack win the hearts and minds of other developers.

Additionally, the opinions of popular leads, managers etc on what should be used will count more. Winning their mindshare will win you a lot of FB org.

Winning a lot of FB org will exert a tremendous influence on the Open Source community as you now have large numbers of engineers working on open source projects on premium pay.

I believe this is how it works in most modern large engineering orgs. After reaching a certain critical mass of adoption, a team will be hard-pressed to use anything else, especially if reusing other team's components requires you to master, say, Redux anyway.