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by williamstein 1596 days ago
Vercel/nextjs.org is a nontrivial company whose business fundamentally depends on supporting the React ecosystem.
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brundolf 1596 days ago
And they aren’t the only one. And countless other companies depend on React “non-fundamentally” at this point.

React is Java now. At most it could start a gradual multi-decade decline (I don’t think this will happen, but it’s imaginable), but I’d bet consultants will still be getting paid to maintain/fix legacy React apps 40 years from now.

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pier25 1596 days ago
They seem to be slowly pivoting to Svelte though.

Rich Harris is now working at Vercel. On the last Svelte Summit, Steph Dietz (a Vercel dev rel) literally said "Svelte is the future of web dev".

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leerob 1595 days ago
Hey, Lee from Vercel. We believe in both React and Svelte equally, and personally I'm also extremely excited about SvelteKit. Both React and Svelte can be successful, it's not a zero-sum game :)
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leerob 1595 days ago
https://vercel.com/blog/supporting-the-future-of-react
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cyral 1596 days ago
They could (and probably should consider) going the Ionic route and building some generic layer that allows them to integrate with Angular, Vue, and future frontend frameworks.
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