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Discussion on: What will happen to React and React Native #deleteFacebook?

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Ben Halpern

I agree. It's also a pretty diversified company at this point. Many probably don't even think of Instagram, Whatsapp etc. as all part of Facebook. Facebook's core product could whither away and they'd be fine.

I am pretty firmly anti-Facebook at this point. I dislike pretty much everything they do for the world and don't feel like they have many redeeming qualities. But even in the most devastating outcomes of bad publicity I think these libraries are safe—or as safe as anything is in a turbulent world with no guarantees.

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Mike

Social media when regulated is appropriate, but self regulation that is. The libraries Facebook has produced will be maintained even if they drop them as they’re fairly popular libraries, however this is a non-issue as even though facebooks lost billions, give it a month they’ll have it all back and then some