[epolanski]

They poached pretty much the entire react team in order to bet on:

- react being the most popular FE library for time to come

- gain the user's mindshare as react being now a Vercel product (something which is becoming increasingly true)

- users attracted by react and next eventually becoming Vercel customers.

They have also tried or employed several other major library authors in order to position themselves uniquely at the crossroads of major FE software and thus be uniquely positioned to transform those users again in Vercel customers.

I don't judge any of this negatively or positively but that's the case I see.

[kevinak]

This is just a meme, an overwhelming majority of the React team ar still at Meta.

[epolanski]

A very large chunk of the longest serving and more important jumped ship though.

[KyeRussell]

More important? Or more famous?

[azangru]

> They poached pretty much the entire react team

I remember they got Sebastian :-) Who else?

[capableweb]

Grabbing contributions (commits specifically) between Dec 20, 2021 – Apr 15, 2023 and looking at the workplace of authors (first #20) it seems:

- at least 2 (top #2) works at Vercel

- at least 4 works at Facebook

Edit: but this is just commits for facebook/react, reality might look differently :)

[acemarke]

Andrew Clark just moved over to Vercel. I believe they also got Dominic Gannaway, who used to work on the React team, although he said he'll be working on Svelte compiler stuff now.

[teg4n_]

Dominic is going to work on the Svelte team at Vercel according to his Twitter. https://twitter.com/trueadm/status/1640761270566633472?s=20

[scns]

> Dominic Gannaway

Whom React got from InfernoJS

[pier25]

I don't think Dominic ever stopped working on Inferno