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by kall 1507 days ago
The section about trusting dependencies, the scenario where they go away, version churn etc doesn't resonate with me in regards to react.

I don't know any project in JS-land that is more serious about semver, backwards compatibility and reliable upgrades than react. If facebook dropped the project tomorrow, Vercel alone could probably continue to maintain it well.

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Not only that, but so many strong engineering orgs build on React that I can't imagine it degrading very soon. Even if the top contributors left, Facebook imploded, and Airbnb disappeared, I'm quite certain there would be a crowdsourced effort to rescue and maintain the framework.
There’s even preact which is similar to react but a different org.