This week we’ve got a big show with James Pearce, Head of Open Source at Facebook, to talk about that very subject — open source at Facebook. We talked about his path to software development, why he’s the person to lead open source at Facebook, their view on open source, their culture of open source, how they choose what to open source, and more importantly — how they focus on, support, and nurture the community.
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Show notes and links
- James Pearce (@jamespearce) on Twitter
- Facebook on GitHub
- Facebook Open Source
- Facebook Engineering Blog
- React – Facebook’s JavaScript library for building user interfaces
- HipHop VM (HHVM) – Facebook’s virtual machine designed for executing programs written in PHP
- Hack – Facebook’s programming language for HHVM
- Facebook’s top 5 open source projects of 2015
- React Native: A year in review
- Dive into React Native performance
- Open sourcing ReDex: Making Android apps smaller and faster
- Building and managing iOS model objects with Remodel
- Automatic memory leak detection on iOS
- The Changelog #196: TiddlyWiki with Jeremy Ruston
- MK14 (Microcomputer Kit 14)
- Nuclide – Facebook’s unified developer experience for web and mobile development IDE, built as a single package on top of Atom to provide hackability and the support of an active community.
- Buck – Facebook’s high-performance build tool
- a16z Podcast: When Humanity Meets A.I.
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