[andygcook]

One of the big frustrations with DraftJS is that Facebook moved on (which is understandable), but the core repo wasn’t given control to the community, so patches and updates couldn’t be pulled in. Obviously it’s open source and could be hard forked, but that’s not ideal.

I’d be curious if there are plans internally to make sure Lexical continues to be supported by Facebook and doesn’t end up with the same fate.

[trueadm]

I completely understand. I can't guarantee anything, no on can in software. However, we do have a dedicated full-time team working on Lexical. DraftJS never had that, it only had a few part-time maintainers at Facebook.

[andygcook]

Agreed there’s no guarantees in software, but that’s helpful context that there’s a dedicated team working on Lexical. Thanks for sharing and also for giving back to the software community by open sourcing the code. Editors are tough and every thoughtful approach like this that’s publicly available to use helps push them forward.

[lhorie]

Hey Dominic, good to see you :)

I take you moved from the React team to this dedicated Lexical team?

[trueadm]

Good to see you too! I moved from the React core team about 2 years ago, and since then, I was fortunate to be able to build a team around Lexical!

[lhorie]

Nice, congrats on the open source release!

[robertlagrant]

> I can't guarantee anything, no on can in software.

What does this mean?

[mjburgess]

(1) People aren't often good at communicating their intent with language. It requires using public meanings (words) assembled in some order to reflect a private meaning which is non-linguistic.

(2) I think something like "At the moment it's funded, but I can't legally bind my org to that commitment. And in general, as software comes-and-goes, it's future utility and support is always hard to pin-down".

I mention (1) because I think (2) can be inferred from the comment, and I think we have some responsibility as readers/listeners to do that; rather than expect all communication will be clear to us.

[robertlagrant]

I agree that people are sometimes accidentally unclear; that's why I asked a clarifying question.