Open Source at Facebook (Changelog Interviews #211)

James Pearce, Head of Open Source at Facebook, joined the show to talk about that very subject — open source at Facebook, 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.

James Pearce, Head of Open Source at Facebook, joined the show to talk about that very subject — open source at Facebook, 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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Featuring:

James Pearce – Twitter, GitHub, WebsiteAdam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, WebsiteJerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

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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