July 15, 2016

Open Source at Facebook

1 hour 19 minutes

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 – Website, GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

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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